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

• Autore: Feiner Shmuel
• Pubblicazione: New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 193; B
• Soggetto topico: Philosophers - Germany - Berlin; Jews - Germany - Berlin
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• ISBN: 0-300-16752-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453147303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)