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Moses Mendelssohn : sage of modernity / / Shmuel Feiner ; translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris



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Autore: Feiner Shmuel Visualizza persona
Titolo: Moses Mendelssohn : sage of modernity / / Shmuel Feiner ; translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
Disciplina: 193
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Soggetto topico: Philosophers - Germany - Berlin
Jews - Germany - Berlin
Altri autori: BerrisAnthony  
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-300-16752-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910812986203321
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Serie: Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)