Drawing together two critical moments in the history of European Jewry-its entrance as a participant in the Enlightenment project of religious and political reform and its involvement in the traumatic upheavals brought on by the Great War-this book offers a reappraisal of the intersection of culture, politics, theology, and philosophy in the modern world through the lens of two of the most important thinkers of their day, Moses Mendelssohn and Franz Rosenzweig. Their vision of the place of the Jewish people not only within German society but also within the unfolding history of humankind as a...
Drawing together two critical moments in the history of European Jewry-its entrance as a participant in the Enlightenment project of religious and pol...
Moses Mendelssohn (1729 1786) was the central figure in the emancipation of European Jewry. His intellect, judgment, and tact won the admiration and friendship of contemporaries as illustrious as Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and Immanuel Kant. His enormously influential "Jerusalem" (1783) made the case for religious tolerance, a cause he worked for all his life."Last Works" includes, for the first time complete and in a single volume, the English translation of "Morning Hours: Lectures on the Existence of God" (1785) and "To the Friends of Lessing" (1786). Bruce...
Moses Mendelssohn (1729 1786) was the central figure in the emancipation of European Jewry. His intellect, judgment, and tact won the admiration an...
Oskar Goldberg was an important and controversial figure in Weimar Germany. He challenged the rising racial conception of the state and claimed that the Jewish people were on a metaphysical mission to defeat race-based statism. He attracted the attention of his contemporaries--Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Thomas Mann, and Carl Schmitt, among others--with the argument that ancient Israel's sacrificial rituals held the key to overcoming the tyranny of technology in the modern world. Bruce Rosenstock offers a sympathetic but critical philosophical portrait of Goldberg and puts him into...
Oskar Goldberg was an important and controversial figure in Weimar Germany. He challenged the rising racial conception of the state and claimed tha...
