Modern Jewish Thinkers: From Mendelssohn to Rosenzweig (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781936235315)

Historical conditions at the end of the eighteenth century opened an arena between the formerly autonomous Jewish community and the Christian world, which yielded new departure points for philosophy, including revelation and philosophical reason, dialectically considered; rationalism as intellection and advancing consciousness; heteronomous revelation; historicity; and universal morality. In Modern Jewish Thinkers, Greenberg restructures the history of modern Jewish thought comprehensively, providing English translations of Reggio, Krokhmal, Maimon, Samuel Hirsch, Formstecher, Steinheim, Ascher, Einhorn, Samuel David Luzzatto, and Hermann Cohen, published here for the first time. The availability of these sources fills a gap in the field and stimulates new directions for teaching and scholarly research in modern Jewish thought, going beyond Spinoza and Mendelssohn at one end, and to popular twentieth-century figures on the other.

Author: Gershon Greenberg
ISBN-10: 1936235315
ISBN-13: 9781936235315
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2011
Pages: 450
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2011