Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphysics and Aesthetics
Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphysics and Aesthetics

Author: Reinier Munk

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-10-20

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9400724519

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This book presents an extended dialogue in essay form between specialists in the work of Moses Mendelssohn, and experts in important trends in related late-seventeenth and eighteenth century thought. The first group of contributors explores themes in Mendelssohn’s metaphysics and aesthetics, presenting both their internal argumentative coherence and their historical context. The second outlines the context of Mendelssohn’s views on specific topics, and describes his contribution to the discussion of them. The essays are organized in four sections. The first pairs two essays on Mendelssohn’s theory of language and writing. The second section offers three essays addressing a number of topics in Mathematics and philosophy in Mendelssohn. A group of eight essays follows, dealing with Metaphysics in a historical context. The fourth section presents five essays discussing Mendelssohn’s Aesthetics in a historical context. Moses Mendelssohn’s Metaphysics and Aesthetics arises from a conference held in Amsterdam in 2009, which gathered numerous authorities to address the central theme. Taken together, these eighteen essays present a sophisticated portrait of Mendelssohn, packed with detail and rich in complexity.

The Ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn
The Ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn

Author: Leah Hochman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-10

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1317669975

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The Ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn examines the idea of ugliness through four angles: philosophical aesthetics, early anthropology, physiognomy and portraiture in the eighteenth-century. Highlighting a theory that describes the benefit of encountering ugly objects in art and nature, eighteenth-century German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn recasts ugliness as a positive force for moral education and social progress. According to his theory, ugly objects cause us to think more and thus exercise—and expand—our mental abilities. Known as ugly himself, he was nevertheless portrayed in portraits and in physiognomy as an image of wisdom, gentility, and tolerance. That seeming contradiction—an ugly object (Mendelssohn) made beautiful—illustrates his theory’s possibility: ugliness itself is a positive, even redeeming characteristic of great opportunity. Presenting a novel approach to eighteenth century aesthetics, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of Jewish Studies, Philosophy and History.

Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings
Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings

Author: Moses Mendelssohn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-05

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780521573832

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Mendelssohn's Philosophical Writings, helped propel its author to the forefront of the Berlin Enlightenment.

Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew Writings
Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew Writings

Author:

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2018-05-22

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 030022902X

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The first annotated English translation of the Hebrew writings of the great eighteenth-century Berlin philosopher

No Religion Without Idolatry
No Religion Without Idolatry

Author: Gideon Freudenthal

Publisher:

Published: 2022-09-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780268206635

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No Religion without Idolatry offers an interpretation of Mendelssohn's general philosophy and discusses for the first time his semiotic interpretation of idolatry in his commentaries.

Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn

Author: Alexander Altmann

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 1984-03-01

Total Pages: 910

ISBN-13: 1909821187

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Professor Altmann quotes widely from personal letters and other contemporary documents in this biographical study of one of the most celebrated figures of the German Enlightenment. A considerable amount of the primary source material is offered in English translation.

Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant
Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant

Author: Paul Guyer

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0198850336

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Paul Guyer presents the first in-depth examination of the lifelong intellectual relationship between two of the greatest figures of the European Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant and Moses Mendelssohn. He explores their influence on each other and their disagreements, with particular focus on metaphysics, religion, and aesthetics.

Morning Hours
Morning Hours

Author: Moses Mendelssohn

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 9400704186

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The last work published by Moses Mendelssohn during his lifetime, Morning Hours (1785) is also the most sustained presentation of his mature epistemological and metaphysical views, all elaborated in the service of presenting proofs for the existence of God. But Morning Hours is much more than a theoretical treatise. It also plays a central role in the drama of the Pantheismusstreit, Mendelssohn's "dispute" with F. H. Jacobi over the nature and scope of Lessing's attitude toward Spinoza and "pantheism". As the latest salvo in a war of texts with Jacobi, Morning Hours is also Mendelssohn's attempt to set the record straight regarding his beloved Lessing in this connection, not least by demonstrating the absence of any practical (i.e., religious or moral) difference between theism and a "purified pantheism".

Philosophy and Its History
Philosophy and Its History

Author: Mogens Laerke

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0199857148

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This volume collects contributions from leading scholars of early modern philosophy from a wide variety of philosophical and geographic backgrounds. The distinguished contributors offer very different, competing approaches to the history of philosophy.

Schelling's Philosophy
Schelling's Philosophy

Author: G. Anthony Bruno

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0198812817

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This volume provides a wide-ranging presentation of F.W.J. Schelling's original contribution to, and internal critique of, the basic insights of German idealism and his and innovative responses to questions of lasting metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, aesthetic, and theological importance.