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The Ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn

Author : Leah Hochman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317669975
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The Ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn written by Leah Hochman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn

Author : Leah Hochman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138379282
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book The Ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn written by Leah Hochman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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's Living Script

Author : Elias Sacks
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253023874
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Moses Mendelssohn's Living Script written by Elias Sacks and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) is often described as the founder of modern Jewish thought and as a leading philosopher of the late Enlightenment. One of Mendelssohn's main concerns was how to conceive of the relationship between Judaism, philosophy, and the civic life of a modern state. Elias Sacks explores Mendelssohn's landmark account of Jewish practice—Judaism's "living script," to use his famous phrase—to present a broader reading of Mendelssohn's writings and extend inquiry into conversations about modernity and religion. By studying Mendelssohn's thought in these dimensions, Sacks suggests that he shows a deep concern with history. Sacks affords a view of a foundational moment in Jewish modernity and forwards new ways of thinking about ritual practice, the development of traditions, and the role of religion in society.

Sara Levy's World

Author : Rebecca Cypess
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580469213
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Sara Levy's World written by Rebecca Cypess and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich interdisciplinary exploration of the world of Sara Levy, a Jewish salonnière and skilled performing musician in late eighteenth-century Berlin, and her impact on the Bach revival, German-Jewish life, and Enlightenment culture.

Moses Mendelssohn

Author : Alexander Altmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Moses Mendelssohn written by Alexander Altmann and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moses Mendelssohn

Author : Alexander Altmann
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1909821187
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Moses Mendelssohn written by Alexander Altmann and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1984-03-01 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphysics and Aesthetics

Author : Reinier Munk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789400724518
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphysics and Aesthetics written by Reinier Munk and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Moses Mendelssohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521574778
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings written by Moses Mendelssohn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mendelssohn's Philosophical Writings, helped propel its author to the forefront of the Berlin Enlightenment.

Moses Mendelssohn

Author : Moses Mendelssohn
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611682142
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Moses Mendelssohn written by Moses Mendelssohn and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English translation of key works, many never before translated, by Moses Mendelssohn, the founder of modern Jewish philosophy

Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment

Author : David Sorkin
Publisher : Halban Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1905559518
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment written by David Sorkin and published by Halban Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the premier Jewish thinker of his day and one of the best-known figures of the German Enlightenment, earning the sobriquet 'the Socrates of Berlin'. He was thoroughly involved in the central issue of Enlightenment religious thinking: the inevitable conflict between reason and revelation in an age contending with individual rights and religious toleration. He did not aspire to a comprehensive philosophy of Judaism, since he thought human reason was limited, but he did see Judaism as compatible with toleration and rights. David Sorkin offers a close study of Mendelssohn's complete writings, treating the German, and the often-neglected Hebrew writings, as a single corpus and arguing that Mendelssohn's two spheres of endeavour were entirely consistent.

Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn

Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226922782
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn written by Leo Strauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an annotated translation of the introductions written by the young Leo Strauss to ten of Mendelssohn's writings."

Ugly Freedoms

Author : Elisabeth R. Anker
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 147802240X
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Ugly Freedoms written by Elisabeth R. Anker and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ugly Freedoms Elisabeth R. Anker reckons with the complex legacy of freedom offered by liberal American democracy, outlining how the emphasis of individual liberty has always been entangled with white supremacy, settler colonialism, climate destruction, economic exploitation, and patriarchy. These “ugly freedoms” legitimate the right to exploit and subjugate others. At the same time, Anker locates an unexpected second type of ugly freedom in practices and situations often dismissed as demeaning, offensive, gross, and ineffectual but that provide sources of emancipatory potential. She analyzes both types of ugly freedom at work in a number of texts and locations, from political theory, art, and film to food, toxic dumps, and multispecies interactions. Whether examining how Kara Walker’s sugar sculpture A Subtlety, Or the Marvelous Sugar Baby reveals the importance of sugar plantations to liberal thought or how the impoverished neighborhoods in The Wire blunt neoliberalism’s violence, Anker shifts our perspective of freedom by contesting its idealized expressions and expanding the visions for what freedom can look like, who can exercise it, and how to build a world free from domination.

Moses Mendelssohn

Author : Hermann Walter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Moses Mendelssohn written by Hermann Walter and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Comics and Sacred Texts

Author : Assaf Gamzou
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496819225
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Comics and Sacred Texts written by Assaf Gamzou and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Ofra Amihay, Madeline Backus, Samantha Baskind, Elizabeth Rae Coody, Scott S. Elliott, Assaf Gamzou, Susan Handelman, Leah Hochman, Leonard V. Kaplan, Ken Koltun-Fromm, Shiamin Kwa, Samantha Langsdale, A. David Lewis, Karline McLain, Ranen Omer-Sherman, Joshua Plencner, and Jeffrey L. Richey Comics and Sacred Texts explores how comics and notions of the sacred interweave new modes of seeing and understanding the sacral. Comics and graphic narratives help readers see religion in the everyday and in depictions of God, in transfigured, heroic selves as much as in the lives of saints and the meters of holy languages. Coeditors Assaf Gamzou and Ken Koltun-Fromm reveal the graphic character of sacred narratives, imagining new vistas for both comics and religious texts. In both visual and linguistic forms, graphic narratives reveal representational strategies to encounter the sacred in all its ambivalence. Through close readings and critical inquiry, these essays contemplate the intersections between religion and comics in ways that critically expand our ability to think about religious landscapes, rhetorical practices, pictorial representation, and the everyday experiences of the uncanny. Organized into four sections--Seeing the Sacred in Comics; Reimagining Sacred Texts through Comics; Transfigured Comic Selves, Monsters, and the Body; and The Everyday Sacred in Comics--the essays explore comics and graphic novels ranging from Craig Thompson's Habibi and Marvel's X-Men and Captain America to graphic adaptions of religious texts such as 1 Samuel and the Gospel of Mark. Sacred Texts and Comics shows how claims to the sacred are nourished and concealed in comic narratives. Covering many religions, not only Christianity and Judaism, this rare volume contests the profane/sacred divide and establishes the import of comics and graphic narratives in disclosing the presence of the sacred in everyday human experience.

The Dark Side: Philosophical Reflections on the “Negative Emotions”

Author : Paola Giacomoni
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030551237
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Side: Philosophical Reflections on the “Negative Emotions” written by Paola Giacomoni and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the reader on a philosophical quest to understand the dark side of emotions. The chapters are devoted to the analysis of negative emotions and are organized in a historical manner, spanning the period from ancient Greece to the present time. Each chapter addresses analytical questions about specific emotions generally considered to be unfavorable and classified as negative. The general aim of the volume is to describe the polymorphous and context-sensitive nature of negative emotions as well as changes in the ways people have interpreted these emotions across different epochs. The editors speak of ‘the dark side of the emotions’ because their goal is to capture the ambivalent – unstable and shadowy – aspects of emotions. A number of studies have taken the categorial distinction between positive and negative emotions for granted, suggesting that negative emotions are especially significant for our psychological experience because they signal difficult situations. For this reason, the editors stress the importance of raising analytical questions about the valence of particular emotions and focussing on the features that make these emotions ambivalent: how – despite their negativity – such emotions may turn out to be positive. This opens up a perspective in which each emotion can be understood as a complex interlacing of negative and positive properties. The collection presents a thoughtful dialogue between philosophy and contemporary scientific research. It offers the reader insight by illuminating the dark side of the emotions.

The Value of the Particular: Lessons from Judaism and the Modern Jewish Experience

Author : Michael Zank
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004292691
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Value of the Particular: Lessons from Judaism and the Modern Jewish Experience written by Michael Zank and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Value of the Particular assembles original essays by senior and junior scholars in comparative religion, philosophy of religion, modern Judaism, and post-Holocaust studies, fields of inquiry where Steven T. Katz made major contributions.

The Court of Reason

Author : Beatrix Himmelmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110701448
Total Pages : 1984 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Court of Reason written by Beatrix Himmelmann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 1984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Proceedings present the contributions to the 13th International Kant Congress which was held at the University of Oslo, August 6-9, 2019. The congress, which hosted speakers from more than thirty countries and five continents, was dedicated to the topic of the court of reason. The idea that reason stands before itself as a tribunal characterizes the whole of Kant's critical project. Without such a court, reason falls into conflict with itself. With such a court in place, however, it may succeed in establishing the possibility and limits of metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, law and science. The idea of reason being its own judge is not only pivotal to a proper understanding of Kant's philosophy, but can also shed light on the burgeoning fields of meta-philosophy and philosophical methodology. The 2019 Kant Congress put special emphasis on Kant's methodology, his account of conceptual critique, and the relevance of his ideas to current issues in especially political philosophy and the philosophy of law. Additional sections discussed a wide range of topics in Kant's philosophy. The Proceedings will provide anyone who is interested in exploring the variety of present-day work on Kant and Kantian themes with a wealth of fruitful inspiration.