Modern Jewish Thinkers : : From Mendelssohn to Rosenzweig / / Gershon Greenberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• VerfasserIn: Greenberg, Gershon,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (450 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Chapter One: The Dialectical Truth -- 2. Chapter Two: Intellection and Developing Consciousness -- 3. Chapter Three: Heteronomous Revelation -- 4. Chapter Four: History -- 5. Chapter Five: Universal Morality -- 6. Chapter Six: Through the Twentieth Century -- INDEX