German-Jewish Thought Between Religion and Politics: Festschrift in Honor of Paul Mendes-Flohr on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday

Published by De Gruyter 2012

German-Jewish Thought Between Religion and Politics

Festschrift in Honor of Paul Mendes-Flohr on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday

Edited by: Christian Wiese and Martina Urban

Volume 60 in the series Studia Judaica

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Since the Enlightenment period, German-Jewish intellectuals have been prominent voices in the multi-facetted discourse on the reinterpretation of Jewish tradition in light of modern thinking. Paul Mendes-Flohr, one of the towering figures of current scholarship on German-Jewish intellectual history, has made invaluable contributions to a better understanding of the religious, cultural and political dimensions of these thinkers’ encounter with German and European culture, including the tension between their loyalty to Judaism and the often competing claims of non-Jewish society and culture. This volume assembles essays by internationally acknowledged scholars in the field who intend to honor Mendes-Flohr’s work by portraying the abundance of religious, philosophical, aesthetical and political aspects dominating the thinking of those famous thinkers populating German Jewry's rich and complex intellectual world in the modern period. It also provides a fresh theoretical outlook on trends in Jewish intellectual history, raising new questions concerning the dialectics of assimilation. In addition to that, the volume sheds light on thinkers and debates that hitherto have not been accorded full scholarly attention.

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Christian Wiese, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Martina Urban, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.

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Introduction Christian Wiese and Martina Urban Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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The Emergence of Modern Religion: Moses Mendelssohn, Neoclassicism, and Ceremonial Aesthetics Zachary J. Braiterman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Moses Mendelssohn and the Three Paths of German Jewish Thought Leora F. Batnitzky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Reciting Jesus: Heine’s Nazarene Family Relations Willi Goetschel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Religious Reform and Political Revolution in Mid-nineteenth Century Germany: The Case of Abraham Jakob Adler Michael A. Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
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Love-of-Neighbor and Ethics Out of Law in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen Dana Hollander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Hermann Cohen’s Lturgical Reasoning on the Moral Subject and the Moral Community Steven Kepnes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
The Discovery of the “True Plato” in Some Twentieth-Century German Jewish Thinkers Irene Kajon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Speaking Metaphysically of a Metaphysical God: Rosenzweig, Schelling, and the Metaphysical Divide Cass Fisher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Verification (Bewährung) in Franz Rosenzweig Martin Kavka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
“Within Earshot of the Young Hegel”: Rosenzweig’s Letter to Rudolf Ehrenberg of September 1910 Benjamin Pollock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
“Brother Where Art Thou?” Reflections on Jesus in Martin Buber and the Hasidic Master R. Shmuel Bornstein of Sochaczev Shaul Magid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
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“Thus Rome shows us our True Place”: Reflections on the German Jewish Love for Italy Asher D. Biemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Facing Plurality (from Marginality): The German-Jewish Reception of William James Martina Urban Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Leo Strauss on Lessing’s Spinozism Michah Gottlieb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Strauss, Schmitt, and Peterson, or: Comparative Contours of the “Theological-Political Predicament” Michael Zank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
“Let me tell you a story”: Walter Benjamin and the History of the Future Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Jacob Taubes, Karl Löwith, and the Interpretation of Jewish History Peter E. Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
The Jews They Were and the Philosophers They Wished to Become Benjamin Lazier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
No “Love of the Jewish People”? Robert Weltsch’s and Hans Jonas’s Correspondence with Hannah Arendt on Eichmann in Jerusalem Christian Wiese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
Bibliography Paul Mendes-Flohr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
List of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	453

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
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- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 458
Keywords: Jewish Philosophy; Jewish Intellectual History; German-Jewish History; Religious Philosophy; Modern Judaism

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Published: March 30, 2012
ISBN: 9783110247756

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Published: March 15, 2012
ISBN: 9783110247749