The article examines Johann Franz Budde’s ambitious attempt to integrate Jewish philosophy—particularly the Kabbalistic tradition—into the historiography of philosophy within the intellectual landscape of the German Protestant world between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Through a reconstruction of Budde’s work, from his early contributions to the Observationes Literariae to the Introductio ad historiam philosophiae Hebraicae, the study highlights how he positioned ancient Jewish wisdom as the original source of true philosophical knowledge and as a corrective to the perceived corruptions of Aristotelian scholasticism. Central to the article is the analysis of three major contemporary reviews, published in Amsterdam, Hannover, and Leipzig, which evaluate, distort, or neutralize Budde’s project. These reviews illuminate how early modern philosophical criticism functioned as an instrument of canon formation, contributing to the subsequent marginalization of Jewish thought in European intellectual history and shaping the boundaries of what counted as “philosophy.”
University of Bologna, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-0433-2163
Titolo del capitolo
Recensire la filosofia ebraica nella Germania dell’età moderna: il caso di Johann Franz Budde
Autori
Guido Bartolucci
Lingua
Italiano
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0999-1.08
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Philosophical Reviews in German Territories (1668-1799)
Sottotitolo del libro
Volume 2
Curatori
Pasquale Terracciano, Francesco Valerio Tommasi
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
282
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Copyright
© 2026 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0999-1
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0998-4
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0999-1
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-1060-7
Collana
Knowledge and its Histories
ISSN della collana
3035-5974
e-ISSN della collana
3035-5923