30/06/2026 15:30 - 16:30

HALL: Parenzo - A12

Contact: Manfrinetti B.

Chair: Silvera M., Wilke C.

Medieval and Modern Jewish philosophies display an extraordinary richness of authors, themes, and interactions with doctrines and concepts from other confessional contexts; it is therefore unsurprising that both Jewish and non-Jewish thinkers of the Modern Age engaged with this intellectual legacy. Such engagement could take multiple forms: from a straightforward "revival" to the further development and continuation of earlier conclusions; from a dialectic of conflict or dialogue to the explicit articulation of what had been contained, yet left unspoken, in previous elaborations; from an historical event to the reflection on deeper religious themes.
The proposed interventions on this panel are by prof. Carsten Wilke, concerning the joint reception of medieval and modern thought within a late seventeenth-century rabbinic context; by Prof. Federico Dal Bo, who will reflect on the way Jewish thinkers, and particularly Maimonides, were read by a leading Christian philosopher of the same period, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; and Jacopo Paolo Quartirolo will propose a biographical interpretation of a theoretical idea that Benamozegh inherited from Vincenzo Gioberti.
The interventions will investigate the way these thinkers read and, sometimes, "crypto-cited", or interpreted Jewish philosophy in the Modern Age. Participants will consider how medieval sources, Jewish traditions or philosophical ideas entered new theoretical, political and historical contexts - including the need to safeguard the Jewish tradition, community interests in specific countries, touching even the matter of Jewish emancipation.