LEADER 02594nam 22005411 450 001 9910480068103321 005 20170816142707.0 010 $a1-78238-008-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000001126070 035 $a(EBL)1375242 035 $a(OCoLC)859837466 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001001223 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12394595 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001001223 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10967282 035 $a(PQKB)10712407 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1375242 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001126070 100 $a20130214d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe legacy of liberal Judaism $eErnst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt's hidden conversation /$fNed Curthoys 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cBerghahn Books,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (246 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78238-007-8 311 $a1-299-95459-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a'This man of our destiny': Moses Mendelssohn, Nathan the Wise, and the emergence of a liberal Jewish ethos -- Diasporic visions: the emergence of liberal Judaism -- Abraham Geiger -- Hermann Cohen's prophetic Judaism -- Ernst Cassirer and the ethical legacy of Hermann Cohen -- Ernst Cassirer: the enlightenment as counter-history -- Hannah Arendt: the task of the historian -- Hannah Arendt: a question of character. 330 $a Comparing the liberal Jewish ethics of the German-Jewish philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt, this book argues that both espoused a diasporic, worldly conception of Jewish identity that was anchored in a pluralist and politically engaged interpretation of Jewish history and an abiding interest in the complex lived reality of modern Jews. Arendt's indebtedness to liberal Jewish thinkers such as Moses Mendelssohn, Abraham Geiger, Hermann Cohen, and Ernst Cassirer has been obscured by her modernist posture and caustic critique of the assimilationism of her German-Jewish forebears. By r 606 $aReform Judaism$xPhilosophy 606 $aJewish philosophy$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aReform Judaism$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aJewish philosophy 676 $a296.834 700 $aCurthoys$b Ned$0995259 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480068103321 996 $aThe legacy of liberal Judaism$92280027 997 $aUNINA