The Legacy of Liberal Judaism : : Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt's Hidden Conversation / / Ned Curthoys.
Comparing the liberal Jewish ethics of the German-Jewish philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt, this book argues that both espoused a diasporic, worldly conception of Jewish identity that was anchored in a pluralist and politically engaged interpretation of Jewish history and an abiding inte...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 ‘This Man of Our Destiny’: Moses Mendelssohn, Nathan the Wise and the Emergence of a Liberal Jewish Ethos
- Chapter 2 Diasporic Visions: The Emergence of Liberal Judaism
- Chapter 3 Abraham Geiger: Rabbi and Writer
- Chapter 4 Hermann Cohen’s Prophetic Judaism
- Chapter 5 Ernst Cassirer and the Ethical Legacy of Hermann Cohen
- Chapter 6 Ernst Cassirer: The Enlightenment as Counter-History
- Chapter 7 Hannah Arendt: The Task of the Historian
- Chapter 8 Hannah Arendt: A Question of Character
- Conclusion The Legacies of Liberal Judaism
- Bibliography
- Index