ISBN:
9789400740358
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (IX, 373 p. 6 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Philosophy 15
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Kohler, George Y., 1966 - Reading Maimonides' philosophy in 19th century Germany
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
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Philosophy, medieval
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History
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Philosophy
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Philosophy (General)
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Philosophy, medieval
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Philosophy
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History
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Maimonides, Moses 1135-1204
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Jüdische Philosophie
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Rezeption
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Deutschland
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Reformjudentum
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Geschichte 1800-1930
Abstract:
George Y. Kohler
Abstract:
This book investigates the re-discovery of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed by the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement in Germany of the nineteenth and beginning twentieth Germany. Since this movement is inseparably connected with religious reforms that took place at about the same time, it shall be demonstrated how the Reform Movement in Judaism used the Guide for its own agenda of historizing, rationalizing and finally turning Judaism into a philosophical enterprise of 'ethical monotheism'. The study follows the reception of Maimonidean thought, and the Guide specifically, through the nineteenth century, from the first beginnings of early reformers in 1810 and their reading of Maimonides to the development of a sophisticated reform-theology, based on Maimonides, in the writings of Hermann Cohen more then a hundred years later.
Description / Table of Contents:
Reading Maimonides'Philosophy in 19th CenturyGermany; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; Part I: Maimonides: The Guide for the Reform Movement in Germany; Chapter 2: The Beginnings; Samson R. Hirsch and Simon Scheyer; Chapter 3: The First Reform Rabbis; Abraham Geiger; Heinrich Graetz; Moritz Eisler and Leopold Stein; Chapter 4: The Rabbinical Seminaries; Manuel Joel; David Kaufmann; Anti-Aristotelianism; Philipp Bloch, Wolf Mischel and Israel Finkelscherer; The Baden Prayerbook; Religious Schoolbook and the Jewish Catechism
Description / Table of Contents:
The Moses ben Maimon VolumesFelix Perles, Wilhelm Bacher and Adolf Biach; Chapter 5: The Return to Philosophy; David Neumark; Hermann Cohen; Benzion Kellermann; Part II: Specific Problems in the Reception of Maimonides' Philosophy in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Germany; Chapter 6: Divine Attributes - The Ethical Concept of God; Manuel Joel; Abraham Geiger and Moritz Eisler; David Kaufmann; Hermann Cohen's Ethics of Maimonides; Benzion Kellermann; Hermann Cohen's Religion of Reason; Chapter 7: The Law; The Reform Approach to the Law; Simon Scheyer's Translation of the Guide
Description / Table of Contents:
Maimonides' Reasons for the CommandmentsThe Frankfurt Conference and Leopold Stein; Moritz Eisler; Abraham Geiger; Heinrich Graetz; David Joel; The Sabians; Leo Bardowicz, Wilhelm Bacher, and Ludwig Pick; Hermann Cohen's Return to Universalism; Maimonides in the Religion of Reason; Cohen on Guide III, 31-32; Cohen on the Commandments Between Man and God; Cohen on the Future of the Torah; Chapter 8: Maimonides and Kant; Salomon Maimon; Manuel Joel; Adolf Schmiedl; Moritz Eisler; David Kaufmann; Wolf Mischel; Israel Friedländer; David Neumark; Julius Guttmann; Moritz Steckelmacher
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Hermann CohenBenzion Kellermann; Max Freudenthal and Philipp Bloch; Epilogue: The Year 1924; Chapter 9: "Rambam or Maimonides"; Samson Raphael Hirsch; Israel Deutsch and J. Bukofzer; Josef Gugenheimer; The Berlin Orthodox Seminary and Ignatz Münz; David Hoffmann; Simon Eppenstein; Joseph Wohlgemuth; Israel Friedländer; Arnold Klein; Appendix: The Debate Between Julius Guttmann and Leo Strauss; Chapter 10: Conclusions; Primary German Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Sources on Maimonides' Guide; Bibliography; Modern Secondary Literature; Selected Hebrew Literature; Author Index
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Subject IndexIndex of Chapters;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-4035-8
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