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.


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.


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's Hebrew Writings

Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew Writings

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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


Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant

Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant

Author: Paul Guyer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-05-14

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0192590669

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Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant provides the first in-depth examination of the lifelong intellectual relationship between two of the greatest figures of the European Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786). Both were engaged in a common project of striking the right balance between rationalism and empiricism. They sometimes borrowed from one another, often disagreed with one another, and can usefully be compared even when they did not directly interact. Guyer examines a series of comparisons and contrasts: their arguments and conclusions on a range of metaphysical issues, including proofs of the existence of God, immortality, and idealism; their shared interests in aesthetics; and their path-breaking work on the “religion of reason” and the separation of church and state. Setting the work of both philosophers in historical context, Guyer shows that, where Kant sometimes provides deeper insight into the underlying structure of human thought, Mendelssohn is often the deeper student of the variety of human experience. This is evident above all in their treatments of aesthetics and religion: Mendelssohn recognizes more deeply than Kant the emotional impact of art, and while Kant imagines that organized religion will one day be superseded by pure morality, Mendelssohn argued that organized religion in all its varieties seems here to stay, and so toleration for religious variety is an inescapable requirement of human morality. Based on an exhaustive study of a wide range of texts, this study demonstrates the on-going relevance of Kant and Mendelssohn to modern thought.


The Modern Experience of the Religious

The Modern Experience of the Religious

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-05-15

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 9004544607

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The articles in The Modern Experience of the Religious, edited by Nassim Bravo and Jon Stewart, explore the many ways in which religion was impacted by the emergence of modernity, particularly after the Enlightenment, which underscored the centrality of human reason and thus called into question traditional forms of religiosity. Modernity raised several questions that are studied by the authors of this volume: What should be the role of religion in a secular or pluralistic society? How does the human being relate to God? Can instituted religion be compatible with modern values such as civil liberties, pluralism or environmentalism?


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.


The Sublime Reader

The Sublime Reader

Author: Robert R. Clewis

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-11-29

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 1350030171

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This is the first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime. The book takes a chronological approach, covering the earliest ancient traditions up through the early and late modern periods and into contemporary theory. It takes an inclusive, interdisciplinary approach to this key concept in aesthetics and criticism, representing voices and traditions that have often been excluded. As such, it will be of use and interest across the humanities and allied disciplines, from art criticism and literary theory, to gender and cultural studies and environmental philosophy. The anthology includes brief introductions to each selection, reading or discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, a bibliography and index – making it an ideal text for building a course around or for further study. The book's apparatus provides valuable context for exploring the history and contemporary views of the sublime.


The Reception of Edmund Burke in Europe

The Reception of Edmund Burke in Europe

Author: Martin Fitzpatrick

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-01-12

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1350012556

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Over the last fifty years the life and work of Edmund Burke (1729-1797) has received sustained scholarly attention and debate. The publication of the complete correspondence in ten volumes and the nine volume edition of Burke's Writings and Speeches have provided material for the scholarly reassessment of his life and works. Attention has focused in particular on locating his ideas in the history of eighteenth-century theory and practice and the contexts of late eighteenth-century conservative thought. This book broadens the focus to examine the many sided interest in Burke's ideas primarily in Europe, and most notably in politics and aesthetics. It draws on the work of leading international scholars to present new perspectives on the significance of Burke's ideas in European politics and culture.


Baumgarten's Aesthetics

Baumgarten's Aesthetics

Author: J. Colin McQuillan

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-07-07

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1538146266

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The German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762) introduced “aesthetics” as a new science in his Reflections on Poetry (1735) and developed this new part of philosophy in a series of later works, culminating in his unfinished Aesthetics (1750/1758). This volume is the first collection of essays in the English language devoted to Baumgarten’s aesthetics. The essays highlight the distinguishing features of Baumgarten’s aesthetics, situate it in its historical context, document its reception, and examine its contributions to contemporary philosophy.