Socrates and the Jews : Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud

by: Leonard, M.

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Socrates and the Jews : Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud

Author:Miriam Leonard (Author)

Summary:"What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" Posed by the early Christian Tertullian, the question was vigorously debated in the nineteenth century. Taking on the question of how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible, this book explains how Judaism played a vital role in defining modern philhellenism.

Contents:
Introduction: Athens and Jerusalem
Socrates and the reason of Judaism: Moses Mendelssohn and Immanuel Kant
Noah and Noesis: Greeks, Jews, and the Hegelian dialectic
Matthew Arnold in Zion: Hebrews, Hellenes, Aryans, and Semites
Greeks, Jews, and the death of God: Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche
Moses on the Acropolis: Sigmund Freud

xiv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Socrates and the Jews : Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud

by: Leonard, M.

• ISBN-13: 9780226213347 / 978-0-226-21334-7
• ISBN-03: 022621334X / 0-226-21334-X
• The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2014

Price: 28,40 EURO

1 copy in stock