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No religion without idolatry : Mendelssohn's Jewish Enlightenment / Gideon Freudenthal.

Title
No religion without idolatry : Mendelssohn's Jewish Enlightenment / Gideon Freudenthal.
Author
Freudenthal, Gideon.
Publication
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2012.

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xi, 332 p.; 23 cm.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Faith and reason > Judaism
  • Haskalah
  • Idolatry
  • Jewish philosophy
  • Judaism and philosophy
  • Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-326) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Mendelssohn: common sense, rational metaphysics, and skepticism -- Salomon Maimon: the radical alternative to Mendelssohn -- The truth of religion -- The language of action in biblical times -- Idolatry: Egyptian and Jewish -- The "ceremonial law" of Judaism: transitory hieroglyphics -- Idolatry in contemporary Judaism -- Philosophy of enlightened Judaism -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Mirror images: Moses Mendelssohn and Alexander Altmann -- Mendelssohn's messianic allusions -- The title Jerusalem.
ISBN
  • 9780268028909 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0268028907 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2012005300
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library