Out in Print: Simone Luzzatto's Discourse and Socrates

20 August 2019

Photo: UHH/MCAS/SUB HH/De Gruyter

New, freshly translated, and annotated bi-lingual editions of two key works by the pioneering seventeenth-century Venetian rabbi, offering an unprecedented blend of Judaism, scepticism, and political thought.

Studies and Texts in Scepticism

The series Studies and Texts in Scepticism (STIS) contains monographs, translations, and collected essays exploring scepticism in its dual manifestation as a purely philosophical tradition and as a set of sceptical strategies, concepts, and attitudes in the cultural field - especially in religions, perhaps most notably in Judaism. In such cultural contexts scepticism manifests as a critical attitude towards different dimensions and systems of secular or revealed knowledge and towards religious and political authorities. It is not merely an intellectual or theoretical worldview, but a critical form of life that expresses itself in such diverse phenomena as religion, literature, and society.

Volumes 7 and  8

• Luzzatto, Simone. Discourse on the State of the Jews. Bilingual Edition, ed. and trans. by Giuseppe Veltri and Anna Lissa. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. [Open Access]
• Luzzatto, Simone. Socrates, or on Human Knowledge. Bilingual Edition, ed. and trans. by Giuseppe Veltri and Michela Torbidoni. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. [Open Access]

Contact
Dr. Yoav Meyrav
STIS Managing Editor
yoav.meyrav"AT"uni-hamburg.de