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The legacy of liberal Judaism : Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt's hidden conversation /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Curthoys, Ned
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • '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.