Alessandro Guetta is Professor of Jewish Thought at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris.

• INTRODUCTIONA FEW BIOGRAPHICAL POINTERS PART I: PHILOSOPHY AND KABBALAH KABBALAH AND PROGRESSTHEOLOGY AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE UNCONSCIOUSTHE UNIVERSAL RELATIONSHIPCONDITIONED PROGRESSHISTORY AND TRUTH"PANTHEISM: THE GREAT ERROR OF OUR AGE"MODERATE IDEALISM: A TENDENCY TOWARD UNIONDISTINCTIONS PRESERVEDThe Philosophical ContextSpinoza’s Error: Downwards UnionChristianity’s error: Upwards UnionThe Metaphysical Flaws of Christian MoralityThe Historical JesusRECONCILIATION: IMMANENTIST MONOTHEISMThe Triumph of the Occident and Thoughts on DifferencePlurality within UnityHIDDEN ANTHROPOMORPHISM: FEUERBACH’S REASONSFROM LAMENTATIONS OF EXILE TO A SENSE OF MISSIONPHILOLOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHYHebrew: A Perfect Language?Hebrew: A Dead Language? The Possibility of Modern Hebraic PoetryVico and the ZoharTHE INEVITABLE CHOICES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURYBIBLICAL COMMENTARYAn Eloquent IncipitCondemnation from the Oriental RabbisIsrael Moshe Hazan: Fundamentalism and Moderation"As though hanging in air"The Omissions of Em La-Miqra: The Conjunction of Kabbalahand ModernityThe Positive HermeneuticsComparitivismConcordism and TraditionErudition and PhilosophyTHE NOTES ON THE ZOHAR PART II: TRADITION, ORALITY, AND TEXT ISSUES IN PLAYTRADITION AND TEXT: BETWEEN ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTICISMTRADITION AND TEXTS FOR A SCIENCE OF JUDAISMIN DEFENSE OF TRADITIONDefinitionsTHE WRITTEN AND THE SPOKEN WORDPOLEMICAL CONTEXTTradition versus SubjectivityCriticism of Modernity and a New ApologiaThe Danger of IndividualismJewish Reformers and TraditionalistsDefense of KabbalahPolemic in Italian Judaism: S. D. Luzzatto’s Dialogues on the KabbalahThe Inadequacy of Literal InterpretationKabbalah and PhilologyReason and Divine TraditionScience, Method, and TransmissionReligion in the Feminine Declension PART III: STYLE AS WITNESS The Orient, "To Orient Oneself"Solitude: "I live in the Boeotia of Judaism"The Need to SpeakThe Imaginary LibraryFrom Orient to OccidentNOTESINDEX

"…Guetta's work, especially now that it is available in an English translation, should go a long way toward bringing Benamozegh's thought into contemporary dialogue." — AJS Review"Guetta 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." — David B. Ruderman, Ella Darivoff Director, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania"We should all be grateful for Alessandro Guetta's important study that places the little-known Jewish sage Benamozegh at the forefront of modern Kabbalists." — David Appelbaum, author of Jacques Derrida's Ghost: A Conjuration

Alessandro Guetta is Professor of Jewish Thought at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris.

• INTRODUCTIONA FEW BIOGRAPHICAL POINTERS PART I: PHILOSOPHY AND KABBALAH KABBALAH AND PROGRESSTHEOLOGY AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE UNCONSCIOUSTHE UNIVERSAL RELATIONSHIPCONDITIONED PROGRESSHISTORY AND TRUTH"PANTHEISM: THE GREAT ERROR OF OUR AGE"MODERATE IDEALISM: A TENDENCY TOWARD UNIONDISTINCTIONS PRESERVEDThe Philosophical ContextSpinoza’s Error: Downwards UnionChristianity’s error: Upwards UnionThe Metaphysical Flaws of Christian MoralityThe Historical JesusRECONCILIATION: IMMANENTIST MONOTHEISMThe Triumph of the Occident and Thoughts on DifferencePlurality within UnityHIDDEN ANTHROPOMORPHISM: FEUERBACH’S REASONSFROM LAMENTATIONS OF EXILE TO A SENSE OF MISSIONPHILOLOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHYHebrew: A Perfect Language?Hebrew: A Dead Language? The Possibility of Modern Hebraic PoetryVico and the ZoharTHE INEVITABLE CHOICES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURYBIBLICAL COMMENTARYAn Eloquent IncipitCondemnation from the Oriental RabbisIsrael Moshe Hazan: Fundamentalism and Moderation"As though hanging in air"The Omissions of Em La-Miqra: The Conjunction of Kabbalahand ModernityThe Positive HermeneuticsComparitivismConcordism and TraditionErudition and PhilosophyTHE NOTES ON THE ZOHAR PART II: TRADITION, ORALITY, AND TEXT ISSUES IN PLAYTRADITION AND TEXT: BETWEEN ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTICISMTRADITION AND TEXTS FOR A SCIENCE OF JUDAISMIN DEFENSE OF TRADITIONDefinitionsTHE WRITTEN AND THE SPOKEN WORDPOLEMICAL CONTEXTTradition versus SubjectivityCriticism of Modernity and a New ApologiaThe Danger of IndividualismJewish Reformers and TraditionalistsDefense of KabbalahPolemic in Italian Judaism: S. D. Luzzatto’s Dialogues on the KabbalahThe Inadequacy of Literal InterpretationKabbalah and PhilologyReason and Divine TraditionScience, Method, and TransmissionReligion in the Feminine Declension PART III: STYLE AS WITNESS The Orient, "To Orient Oneself"Solitude: "I live in the Boeotia of Judaism"The Need to SpeakThe Imaginary LibraryFrom Orient to OccidentNOTESINDEX

"…Guetta's work, especially now that it is available in an English translation, should go a long way toward bringing Benamozegh's thought into contemporary dialogue." — AJS Review"Guetta 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." — David B. Ruderman, Ella Darivoff Director, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania"We should all be grateful for Alessandro Guetta's important study that places the little-known Jewish sage Benamozegh at the forefront of modern Kabbalists." — David Appelbaum, author of Jacques Derrida's Ghost: A Conjuration

Alessandro Guetta is Professor of Jewish Thought at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris.

• INTRODUCTIONA FEW BIOGRAPHICAL POINTERS PART I: PHILOSOPHY AND KABBALAH KABBALAH AND PROGRESSTHEOLOGY AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE UNCONSCIOUSTHE UNIVERSAL RELATIONSHIPCONDITIONED PROGRESSHISTORY AND TRUTH"PANTHEISM: THE GREAT ERROR OF OUR AGE"MODERATE IDEALISM: A TENDENCY TOWARD UNIONDISTINCTIONS PRESERVEDThe Philosophical ContextSpinoza’s Error: Downwards UnionChristianity’s error: Upwards UnionThe Metaphysical Flaws of Christian MoralityThe Historical JesusRECONCILIATION: IMMANENTIST MONOTHEISMThe Triumph of the Occident and Thoughts on DifferencePlurality within UnityHIDDEN ANTHROPOMORPHISM: FEUERBACH’S REASONSFROM LAMENTATIONS OF EXILE TO A SENSE OF MISSIONPHILOLOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHYHebrew: A Perfect Language?Hebrew: A Dead Language? The Possibility of Modern Hebraic PoetryVico and the ZoharTHE INEVITABLE CHOICES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURYBIBLICAL COMMENTARYAn Eloquent IncipitCondemnation from the Oriental RabbisIsrael Moshe Hazan: Fundamentalism and Moderation"As though hanging in air"The Omissions of Em La-Miqra: The Conjunction of Kabbalahand ModernityThe Positive HermeneuticsComparitivismConcordism and TraditionErudition and PhilosophyTHE NOTES ON THE ZOHAR PART II: TRADITION, ORALITY, AND TEXT ISSUES IN PLAYTRADITION AND TEXT: BETWEEN ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTICISMTRADITION AND TEXTS FOR A SCIENCE OF JUDAISMIN DEFENSE OF TRADITIONDefinitionsTHE WRITTEN AND THE SPOKEN WORDPOLEMICAL CONTEXTTradition versus SubjectivityCriticism of Modernity and a New ApologiaThe Danger of IndividualismJewish Reformers and TraditionalistsDefense of KabbalahPolemic in Italian Judaism: S. D. Luzzatto’s Dialogues on the KabbalahThe Inadequacy of Literal InterpretationKabbalah and PhilologyReason and Divine TraditionScience, Method, and TransmissionReligion in the Feminine Declension PART III: STYLE AS WITNESS The Orient, "To Orient Oneself"Solitude: "I live in the Boeotia of Judaism"The Need to SpeakThe Imaginary LibraryFrom Orient to OccidentNOTESINDEX

"…Guetta's work, especially now that it is available in an English translation, should go a long way toward bringing Benamozegh's thought into contemporary dialogue." — AJS Review"Guetta 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." — David B. Ruderman, Ella Darivoff Director, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania"We should all be grateful for Alessandro Guetta's important study that places the little-known Jewish sage Benamozegh at the forefront of modern Kabbalists." — David Appelbaum, author of Jacques Derrida's Ghost: A Conjuration