Moses Mendelssohn : sage of modernity / by Feiner, Shmuel

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Moses Mendelssohn : writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible / by Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786

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Moses Mendelssohn : a Biographical Study. by Altmann, Alexander

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Moses Mendelssohn : writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible / by Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786

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Moses Mendelssohn : sage of modernity / by Feiner, Shmuel

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Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment / by Arkush, Allan, 1949-

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Moses Mendelssohn's living script : philosophy, practice, history, Judaism / by Sacks, Elias

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Last works by Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786

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Last works by Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786

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Aufklärungs-Kritik und Aufklärungs-Mythen : Horkheimer und Adorno in philosophiehistorischer Perspektive

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Kants Vorsehungskonzept auf dem Hintergrund der deutschen Schulphilosophie und -theologie by Lehner, Ulrich L., 1976-

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Faith, reason, politics : essays on the history of Jewish thought by Gottlieb, Michah

Table of Contents: “…Aesthetics and the Infinite: Moses Mendelssohn on the Poetics of Biblical Prophecy -- V. …”
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The legacy of liberal Judaism : Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt's hidden conversation by Curthoys, Ned

Table of Contents: “…'This man of our destiny': Moses Mendelssohn, Nathan the Wise, and the emergence of a liberal Jewish ethos -- Diasporic visions: the emergence of liberal Judaism -- Abraham Geiger -- Hermann Cohen's prophetic Judaism -- Ernst Cassirer and the ethical legacy of Hermann Cohen -- Ernst Cassirer: the enlightenment as counter-history -- Hannah Arendt: the task of the historian -- Hannah Arendt: a question of character.…”
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The main philosophical writings and the novel Allwill by Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich, 1743-1819

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION: THE UNFINISHED PHILOSOPHY OF FRIEDRICH HEINRICH JACOBI -- I: Jacobi and His Spiritual Landscape: An Essay in Synthesis -- II: Philosophical Arguments: An Essay in Analysis -- III: Literary Witnesses: An Essay in Interpretation -- IV: The Last Word: Jacobi on Jacobi -- Note on the Texts -- TEXTS -- Concerning the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Herr Moses Mendelssohn (1785) -- David Hume on Faith, or Idealism and Realism, A Dialogue (1787) -- Concerning the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Moses Mendelssohn (1789), excerpts…”
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No religion without idolatry : Mendelssohn's Jewish Enlightenment by Freudenthal, Gideon

Table of Contents: “…Mendelssohn: common sense, rational metaphysics, and skepticism -- Salomon Maimon: the radical alternative to Mendelssohn -- The truth of religion -- The language of action in biblical times -- Idolatry: Egyptian and Jewish -- The "ceremonial law" of Judaism: transitory hieroglyphics -- Idolatry in contemporary Judaism -- Philosophy of enlightened Judaism -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Mirror images: Moses Mendelssohn and Alexander Altmann -- Mendelssohn's messianic allusions -- The title Jerusalem.…”
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No religion without idolatry : Mendelssohn's Jewish Enlightenment by Freudenthal, Gideon

Table of Contents: “…Mendelssohn: common sense, rational metaphysics, and skepticism -- Salomon Maimon: the radical alternative to Mendelssohn -- The truth of religion -- The language of action in biblical times -- Idolatry: Egyptian and Jewish -- The "ceremonial law" of Judaism: transitory hieroglyphics -- Idolatry in contemporary Judaism -- Philosophy of enlightened Judaism -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Mirror images: Moses Mendelssohn and Alexander Altmann -- Mendelssohn's messianic allusions -- The title Jerusalem.…”
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Philosophical investigations into the essence of human freedom by Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854

Table of Contents: “…Philosophical investigations into the essence of human freedom and the matters connected therewith / Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling -- Mysterium pansophicum or thorough report on the earthly and heavenly mysterium / Jacob Boehme -- "On the assertion that there can [be] no wicked use of reason" / Franz Xaver von Baader -- A parable / Ephraim Gotthold Lessing -- From "On the doctrine of Spinoza in letters to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn / Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi -- From God, some conversations / Johann Gottfried Herder.…”
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Kant's philosophy of the unconscious

Table of Contents: “…Unconscious Representations and Self-consciousness in Kant; Illusion and Strategy of Reason; The Unconscious as Root of Kant's A Priori Sentimentalism; Genius as a Chiasm of the Conscious and Unconscious: A History of Ideas Concerning Kantian Aesthetics; Kant's Defeated Counterpart. Moses Mendelssohn on the Beauty, Mechanics, and Death of the Human Soul; Pre-conceptual Aspects of Self-consciousness in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason; Kant, Blows of Tears.…”
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The origins of the modern Jew Jewish identity and European culture in Germany, 1749-1824 by Meyer, Michael A.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Moses Mendelssohn: The Virtuous Jew -- 2 An Ephemeral Solution -- 3 David FriedlÃ?…”
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The first modern Jew : Spinoza and the history of an image by Schwartz, Daniel B., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Spinoza's Jewish modernities -- Ex-Jew, eternal Jew: early representations of the Jewish Spinoza -- Refining Spinoza : Moses Mendelssohn's response to the Amsterdam heretic -- The first modern Jew : Berthold Auerbach's Spinoza and the beginnings of an image -- A rebel against the past, a revealer of secrets : Salomon Rubin and the east European Maskilic Spinoza -- From the heights of Mount Scopus : Yosef Klausner and the Zionist rehabilitation of Spinoza -- Farewell, Spinoza : I.B. …”
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German-Jewish thought between religion and politics : festschrift in honor of Paul Mendes-Flohr on the occasion of his seventieth birthday

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; I; The Emergence of Modern Religion: Moses Mendelssohn, Neoclassicism, and Ceremonial Aesthetics; Moses Mendelssohn and the Three Paths of German Jewish Thought; Reciting Jesus: Heine's Nazarene Family Relations; Religious Reform and Political Revolution in Mid-nineteenth Century Germany: The Case of Abraham Jakob Adler; II; Love-of-Neighbor and Ethics Out of Law in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen; Hermann Cohen's Liturgical Reasoning on the Moral Subject and the Moral Community; The Discovery of the "True Plato" in Some Twentieth-Century German Jewish Thinkers.…”
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Mixed feelings : tropes of love in German Jewish culture by Garloff, Katja

Table of Contents: “…1800: romantic love and the beginnings of Jewish emancipation -- Interfaith love and the pursuit of emancipation -- Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -- Romantic love and the denial of difference -- Friedrich Schlegel and Dorothea Veit -- Figures of love in later Romantic antisemitism -- Achim von Arnim -- 1900: the crisis of Jewish emancipation and assimilation -- Refiguring the language of race -- Ludwig Jacobowski, Max Nordau, Georg Hermann -- Eros and thanatos in fin-de-siecle Vienna -- Sigmund Freud, Otto Weininger, Arthur Schnitzler -- Revelatory love, or the dynamics of dissimilation -- Franz Rosenzweig and Else Lasker-Schuler -- Toward the present and the future -- Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, Barbara Honigmann.…”
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The image of the non-Jew in Judaism : the idea of Noahide law by Novak, David, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Late Medieval Developments; 13. Moses Mendelssohn and his School; 14. Hermann Cohen and the Jewish Neo-Kantians; 15. …”
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Mediating modernity : challenges and trends in the Jewish encounter with the modern world : essays in honor of Michael A. Meyer

Table of Contents: “…: German liberal Judaism in the 1920s / Steven M. Lowenstein -- Moses Mendelssohn's dreams and nightmares / Shmuel Feiner -- The construction and deconstruction of a Jewish hero: Moses Mendelssohn's afterlife in early-twentieth-century Germany / Michael Brenner -- Singing new songs: translation as a metaphor for modernity / Richard N. …”
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Brill's companion to German Platonism

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Plato and the Platonic Tradition in the Philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa; Leibniz: The Last Great Christian Platonist; The Infinitesimal Calculus of the Soul: Moses Mendelssohn's Phädon; Kant and Plato: An Introduction; Hegel's Plato: A New Departure; Schleiermacher on Plato: From Form (Introduction to Plato's Works) to Content (Outlines of a Critique of Previous Ethical Theory); Friedrich Schleiermacher's Theory of the Platonic Dialogue and Its Legacy; Plato's Conception of Time at the Foundation of Schopenhauer's Philosophy…”
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Monotheism and tolerance : recovering a religion of reason by Erlewine, Robert

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A Traditional quest

Table of Contents: “…Preface; 1 From Philosophy to Religion; 2 A Theological Response to Orthodoxies; 3 Defining the Uniqueness of the Holocaust; 4 Leo Baeck: New Dimensions and Explorations; 5 The Human Body and the Image of God; 6 The Classical Tradition in Byzantium; 7 Akkadian Medicine in the Babylonian Talmud; 8 Psychoanalytic Approaches to Biblical Narrative (Genesis 1-4); 9 Saul Levi Morteira''s Eulogy for Menasseh ben Israel; 10 Ownership and Autonomy: Elements of Composition in the ''Book of the Covenant''; 11 Law in Reform Judaism; 12 Moses Mendelssohn''s Concept of Tolerance.…”
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Monotheism and tolerance : recovering a religion of reason by Erlewine, Robert

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Encounters in modern Jewish thought. Volume 1, Martin Buber : the works of Eva Jospe

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Johann Georg Hamann and the Enlightenment Project. by Sparling, Robert Alan

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Citation; PART ONE: ENLIGHTENMENT AND HAMANN'S REACTION; 1 Introduction: The Enlightenment as a Historical Movement and Political Project; 2 Transfiguring the Enlightenment: Hamann and the Problem of Public Reason; PART TWO: THE POLITICS OF METACRITIQUE: HAMANN CONTRA KANT; 3 Critique and Metacritique: Kant and Hamann; 4 Varieties of Copernican Turn; 5 The Ideas of God and the Person; PART THREE: LANGUAGE AND THE CITY IN MODERN NATURAL LAW: HAMANN'S CONTROVERSY WITH MOSES MENDELSSOHN.…”
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The price of assimilation : Felix Mendelssohn and the nineteenth-century anti-semitic tradition by Sposato, Jeffrey S.

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Bloomsbury Companion to Kant. by Banham, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Eberhard / Empiricism / Frederick the Great / French Revolution / Garve-Feder review / Herder / Francis Hutcheson / Königsberg / J. H. Lambert / Moses Mendelssohn / Physical influx / Pietism / Prussia / School Metaphysics / Adam Smith / Spinoza3. …”
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The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830 : Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society.

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The making of the modern Jewish Bible : how scholars in Germany, Israel, and America transformed an ancient text by Levenson, Alan T.

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Spinoza's modernity : Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine by Goetschel, Willi, 1958-

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Jesus beyond Christianity : the classic texts

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Freedom and the construction of Europe. Volume 2, Free persons and free states

Table of Contents: “…Of Volume I; Contents of Volume II; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Part I Free persons and freedom of action; 1 Human freedom and Jesuit moral theology; 2 Freedom and self-possession: The case of Montaigne's Essais; I; II; III; IV; V; 3 Autonomy and inner freedom: Lipsius and the revival of Stoicism; I; II; III; IV; V; 4 Freedom of the will as a basis of equality: Descartes, Princess Elisabeth and Poullain de la Barre; I; II; III; IV; 5 Language as a means and an obstacle to freedom: the case of Moses Mendelssohn; I; II; III; IV; V.…”
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Enlightenment and Secularism : Essays on the Mobilization of Reason. by Nadon, Christopher, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…16 Tocqueville's Puzzling SecularismAmerican; 17 American Mutual Assistance Practices in the Age of the Enlightenment; 18 Nature and Nature's God in Notes on the State of Virginia; 19 Secularism and the Logic of American Constitutionalism; 20 The World through Ben's Bifocals; German; 21 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Religious Pluralism in Nathan the Wise and The Fragments Controversy; 22 Setting the Stage for Secularization: Theocracy and Liberalism in Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem; 23 Canine Conundrum: The Pantheism Controversy and the Crisis of Secularism.…”
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What is Enlightenment? : eighteenth-century answers and twentieth-century questions

Table of Contents: “…/ Johann Karl Möshen (1783) -- On the question : what is enlightenment? / Moses Mendelssohn (1784) -- An answer to the question : what is enlightenment? …”
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Growing up female in Nazi Germany by Reese, Dagmar, 1952-

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