English | 2012 | ISBN: 0520202619 | EPUB | 214 Pages | 0.4 mb
Through a close study of Mendelssohn’s Hebrew and German writings, David Sorkin argues that Mendelssohn’s two spheres of endeavor were entirely consistent. Mendelssohn attempted to rearticulate the medieval Jewish rationalist tradition in the terms of eighteenth-century philosophy, thereby showing his essential similarity to the Protestant and Catholic thinkers of the religious Enlightenment who attempted to use the new science and philosophy to renew faith. Sorkin restores Mendelssohn to his eighteenth-century milieu and in so doing shows that Mendelssohn, by being turned into a symbol, has been fundamentally misunderstood.
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