Legacy of Liberal Judaism - Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt''s Hidden Conversation

List of 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

About the author

Ned Curthoys is a Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. He has co-edited two edited collections, Edward Said: the Legacy of a Public-Intellectual (Melbourne University Press, 2007) and Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment (Pickering and Chatto, 2013) and has contributed to journals including Theory and Event, Comparative Literature Studies, Intellectual History Review and Journal of Genocide Research.

Summary

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 interest in the complex lived reality of modern Jews.

Product details

• Authors: Ernst Cassirer, Ned Curthoys, Curthoys Ned
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2013
• EAN: 9781782380078
• ISBN: 978-1-78238-007-8
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / General, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Jewish Studies; History (General)