German-Jewish thought between religion and politics
Subtitle: festschrift in honor of Paul Mendes-Flohr on the occasion of his seventieth birthday
By: edited by Christian Wiese and Martina Urban
Series: Studia Judaica Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums -- Bd. 60
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9783110247749
Subjects: Judaism and philosophy; Judaism; Jewish philosophy; History
Description: "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."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.