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Kant’s relationship to Judaism is highly controversial. In this paper I will try to address a specific question that is related to many of the
passages where Kant speaks of Judaism: the one concerning the so-called ‘return of Israel’. That expression involves two different issues: on the one
side, the idea of the return of the Jewish people to Palestine. On the other side, some Christian thinkers understood this idea as the necessity of the

This paper aims to retrace the thought of a classic of sociology, Werner Sombart, in relation to the theme of religious origins of the capitalistic spirit. It analyzes Jewish contribution to the capitalistic spirit’s origins and development, through the variables and the conceptual categories used by the Author in his different works. The focus is concentrated on ethics religiously based by which Jewish community may have contributed to a certain economic orientation.

Oltre a rendere possibile la riscoperta di uno dei pionieri dello studio della filosofia araba, islamica ed ebraica medievale riempiendo una lacuna della storiografia filosofica moderna e contemporanea, il libro mette in questione la validità delle categorie di Oriente e Occidente e riconsidera l'influenza che queste categorie hanno avuto sulla formazione del canone filosofico in epoca moderna e contemporanea, inserendosi nel più attuale dibattito internazionale su questi temi. Il carattere interdisciplinare del libro è determinato dalla natura del soggetto.