German-Jewish Thought Between Religion and Politics (eBook)

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Christian Wiese, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Martina Urban, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.

Introduction 11
I 21
The Emergence of Modern Religion: Moses Mendelssohn, Neoclassicism, and Ceremonial Aesthetics 21
Moses Mendelssohn and the Three Paths of German Jewish Thought 41
Reciting Jesus: Heine’s Nazarene Family Relations 53
Religious Reform and Political Revolution in Mid-nineteenth Century Germany: The Case of Abraham Jakob Adler 69
II 93
Love-of-Neighbor and Ethics Out of Law in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen 93
Hermann Cohen’s Liturgical Reasoning on the Moral Subject and the Moral Community 125
The Discovery of the “True Plato” in Some Twentieth-Century German Jewish Thinkers 143
Speaking Metaphysically of a Metaphysical God: Rosenzweig, Schelling, and the Metaphysical Divide 161
Verification (Bewährung) in Franz Rosenzweig 177
“Within Earshot of the Young Hegel”: Rosenzweig’s Letter to Rudolf Ehrenberg of September 1910 195
“Brother Where Art Thou?” Reflections on Jesus in Martin Buber and the Hasidic Master R. Shmuel Bornstein of Sochaczev 219
III 251
“Thus Rome shows us our True Place”: Reflections on the German Jewish Love for Italy 251
Facing Plurality (from Marginality): The German-Jewish Reception of William James 273
Leo Strauss on Lessing’s Spinozism 299
Strauss, Schmitt, and Peterson, or: Comparative Contours of the “Theological-Political Predicament” 327
“Let me tell you a story”: Walter Benjamin and the History of the Future 345
Jacob Taubes, Karl Löwith, and the Interpretation of Jewish History 359
The Jews They Were and the Philosophers They Wished to Become 381
No “Love of the Jewish People”? Robert Weltsch’s and Hans Jonas’s Correspondence with Hannah Arendt on Eichmann in Jerusalem 397
Bibliography Paul Mendes-Flohr 443
List of Authors 463