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Almost five hundred years after his death, Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) remains a legendary figure of Sephardic history, and above all of the Expulsion of 1492. There are numerous "portraits" that have been painted of him by pre-modern and modern scholars. And still we hesitate and cannot discern which is the true one. This first critical edition of Abravanel's Portuguese and Hebrew letters opens a unique window on a complex cultural process of assimilation and dissimulation of humanism among the fifteenth-century Jewish elite. On the one hand, it establishes Abravanel's assimilation of Iberian humanism and of major aspects of the Petrarchian consolatio; on the other hand, it points at the strategies used by him to dissimulate and adapt humanism to Jewish leadership. The duality of Jewish humanists like Don Isaac was obviously a great richness, but it indicated as well their difficulty in expressing themselves coherently and comprehensively in one of the two agoras - Jewish or Christian - in which they were involved as literati and writers. The present edition and study of Abravanel's Portuguese and Hebrew letters sheds a new light on the complexity of this new figure of the Jewish humanist.

Rabbis --- Jewish statesmen --- Jewish philosophers --- Philosophers, Jewish --- Philosophers --- Statesmen, Jewish --- Jews in public life --- Abravanel, Isaac, --- 296*63 --- 296*63 Joodse theologie en filosofie--in de moderne en hedendaagse tijd --- Joodse theologie en filosofie--in de moderne en hedendaagse tijd --- Abravanel, Isaac --- Rabbis - Correspondence --- Jewish statesmen - Portugal - Correspondence --- Jewish statesmen - Spain - Correspondence --- Jewish statesmen - Italy - Correspondence --- Jewish philosophers - Correspondence --- Abravanel, Isaac, - 1437-1508 - Correspondence --- Humanism. --- Letter writting. --- Renaissance Judaism. --- Renaissance Portuguese literature. --- Abravanel, Isaac, - 1437-1508

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Gustav Landauer was an unconventional anarchist who aspired to a return to a communal life. His antipolitical rejection of authoritarian assumptions is based on a radical linguistic scepticism that could be considered the theoretical premise of his anarchism. The present volume aims to add to the existing scholarship on Landauer by shedding new light on his work, focussing on the two interrelated notions of skepsis and antipolitics. In a time marked by a deep doubt concerning modern politics, Landauer's alternative can help us to more seriously address the struggle for a different articulation of our communitarian and ecological needs.

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