Moses Mendelssohn [[electronic resource] ] : sage of modernity / / Shmuel Feiner ; translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris
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| Autore: |
Feiner Shmuel
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| Titolo: |
Moses Mendelssohn [[electronic resource] ] : sage of modernity / / Shmuel Feiner ; translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris
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| Pubblicazione: | New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 193 |
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| Soggetto topico: | Philosophers - Germany - Berlin |
| Jews - Germany - Berlin | |
| Altri autori: |
BerrisAnthony
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Moses Mendelssohn |
| ISBN: | 0-300-16752-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779130103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)