03550nam 2200637 a 450 991045314730332120200520144314.00-300-16752-010.12987/9780300167528(CKB)2550000000104961(EBL)3420904(SSID)ssj0000703791(PQKBManifestationID)11426573(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703791(PQKBWorkID)10691600(PQKB)11464338(MiAaPQ)EBC3420904(DE-B1597)486122(OCoLC)1059259803(DE-B1597)9780300167528(Au-PeEL)EBL3420904(CaPaEBR)ebr10579303(OCoLC)923599050(EXLCZ)99255000000010496120100517d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMoses Mendelssohn[electronic resource] sage of modernity /Shmuel Feiner ; translated from the Hebrew by Anthony BerrisNew Haven [Conn.] Yale University Pressc20101 online resource (224 p.)Jewish livesDescription based upon print version of record.0-300-16175-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.A stroll down Unter den Linden -- From Dessau to Berlin: an unpredicted career -- Cultural conversion: the three formative years -- War and peace, love and family, fame and frustration -- Affront and sickness: the Lavater Affair -- Dreams, nightmares, and struggles for religious tolerance -- Jerusalem: the road to civic happiness -- Specters: the last two years.The "German Socrates," Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A Berlin celebrity and a major figure in the Enlightenment, revered by Immanuel Kant, Mendelssohn suffered the indignities common to Jews of his time while formulating the philosophical foundations of a modern Judaism suited for a new age. His most influential books included the groundbreaking Jerusalem and a translation of the Bible into German that paved the way for generations of Jews to master the language of the larger culture.Feiner's book is the first that offers a full, human portrait of this fascinating man-uncommonly modest, acutely aware of his task as an intellectual pioneer, shrewd, traditionally Jewish, yet thoroughly conversant with the world around him-providing a vivid sense of Mendelssohn's daily life as well as of his philosophical endeavors. Feiner, a leading scholar of Jewish intellectual history, examines Mendelssohn as father and husband, as a friend (Mendelssohn's long-standing friendship with the German dramatist Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was seen as a model for Jews and non-Jews worldwide), as a tireless advocate for his people, and as an equally indefatigable spokesman for the paramount importance of intellectual independence.Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)PhilosophersGermanyBerlinBiographyJewsGermanyBerlinBiographyElectronic books.PhilosophersJews193BFeiner Shmuel938016Berris Anthony1026566MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453147303321Moses Mendelssohn2441535UNINA