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Moses Mendelssohn : sage of modernity / Shmuel Feiner ; translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feiner, Shmuel.
- Series:
- Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
- Jewish lives
- Standardized Title:
- Mosheh Mendelson. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786.
- Mendelssohn, Moses.
- Philosophers--Germany--Berlin--Biography.
- Philosophers.
- Jews--Germany--Berlin--Biography.
- Jews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300167528
- 0300167520
- OCLC:
- 1059259803
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