No Religion Without Idolatry: Mendelssohn's Jewish Enlightenment

by Gideon Freudenthal

Book Overview

Moses Mendelssohn (1725-1786) is considered the foremost representative of Jewish Enlightenment. In No Religion without Idolatry, Gideon Freudenthal offers a novel interpretation of Mendelssohn's general philosophy and discusses for the first time Mendelssohn's semiotic interpretation of idolatry in his Jerusalem and in his Hebrew biblical commentary. Mendelssohn emerges from this study as an original philosopher, not a shallow popularizer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268028907
• ISBN13: 9780268028909
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"