{"id":952,"date":"2009-03-28T16:37:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T16:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/?p=952"},"modified":"2022-03-24T02:40:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T02:40:42","slug":"philosophy-and-kabbalah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/philosophy-and-kabbalah\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy and Kabbalah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alessandro Guetta, Philosophy and Kabbalah. Elijah Benamozegh and the Reconciliation of Western Thought and Jewish Esotericis, <\/em>State University of New York Press, 2009<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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Alessandro Guetta<\/a>\r\n\t \t\t
Alessandro Guetta is Professor of Jewish Thought at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris.<\/div><\/div>\n


\"guettabook\"<\/a>Philosophy and Kabbalah offers an analysis of the life and work of Elijah Benamozegh (1823\u20131900), an Italian Kabbalist and philosopher of Moroccan origins. Although the relationship between Kabbalah and philosophy has always been problematic, Benamozegh considered Kabbalah to be the true dogmatic and rational tradition of Judaism. In his numerous books and articles in Hebrew, Italian, and French, he constantly integrated this Jewish esoteric tradition into the currents of Western European philosophy, particularly Hegelian idealism and positivism, as well as the philosophy of the unconscious that would later develop into psychoanalysis. Benamozegh\u2019s inspired reading of Spinoza, his grand project of a universal religion, his \u201cfeminization\u201d of Jewish thought, and his ability to excel simultaneously as a rabbi, an Italian patriot, a citizen of the R\u00e9publique des Lettres, and a proud representative of an ancient Sephardic culture make him one of the most outstanding and original figures of the nineteenth-century Jewish culture.<\/p>\n

\u201cGuetta carefully contextualizes the thinking of this last great Kabbalist on Italian soil against the background of earlier and contemporary Italian Jewish thought and general philosophical and theological trends throughout Europe. The result is a marvelous reconstruction of a highly original Jewish thinker attempting to carve a place for Jewish tradition within European culture through his innovative interpretations of Kabbalistic sapience and its relevance for the modern world.\u201d \u2014 David B. Ruderman, Ella Darivoff Director, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should all be grateful for Alessandro Guetta\u2019s important study that places the little-known Jewish sage Benamozegh at the forefront of modern Kabbalists.\u201d \u2014 David Appelbaum, author of Jacques Derrida\u2019s Ghost: A Conjuration<\/p>\n

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