Moses Mendelssohn : sage of modernity /

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The "German Socrates," Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A Berlin celebrity and a major figure in the Enlightenment, revered by Immanuel Kant, Mendelssohn suffered the indignities common to Jews of his time whi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Feiner, Shmuel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Hebrew
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2010]
Series:Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
Subjects:
Mendelssohn, Moses, > 1729-1786.
Mendelssohn, Moses, > 1729-1786
Philosophers > Germany > Berlin > Biography.
Jews > Germany > Berlin > Biography.
Philosophes > Allemagne > Berlin > Biographies.
Juifs > Allemagne > Berlin > Biographies.
RELIGION > Judaism > History.
Jews
Philosophers
Germany > Berlin
Biographies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A stroll down Unter den Linden
  • From Dessau to Berlin: an unpredicted career
  • Cultural conversion: the three formative years
  • War and peace, love and family, fame and frustration
  • Affront and sickness: the Lavater Affair
  • Dreams, nightmares, and struggles for religious tolerance
  • Jerusalem: the road to civic happiness
  • Specters: the last two years.

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