TY  - BOOK
AU  - Altmann,Alexander
TI  - Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study
T2  - The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Series
SN  - 9781909821187
AV  - B2693 .A486 2011 
U1  - 193 B 
PY  - 1984///
CY  - Liverpool
PB  - Liverpool University Press
KW  - Mendelssohn, Moses,-1729-1786
KW  - Philosophers-Germany-Biography
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1: Years of Growth -- Childhood in Dessau -- The Early Years in Berlin -- The Budding Philosopher -- Lessing -- The Metaphysician -- The Bel Esprit -- A Learned Society -- Kohelet Mussar -- 2: Maturity and Fame -- Marriage and Family Life -- Thomas Abbt -- The Prize-Essay -- The Correspondence on the Vocation of Man -- The Phaedon -- Questions and Answers -- Cognate Hebrew Writings -- 3: Turning Point: The Lavater Affair -- Juif de Berlin -- The Prehistory of the Lavater Affair -- Lavater's Challenge and Mendelssohn's Reply -- First Reactions and Behind-the-Scene Activities -- Lavater's Reply and Mendelssohn's Epilogue -- Reverberations of the Conflict -- Literary Concerns and Another Lavater Episode -- 4: Changes in the Pattern of Life -- The Strange Illness -- Ups and Downs: A Chronicle of Events -- Hebraica and Judaica -- The Chronicle Continued -- Some Philosophical Preoccupations -- Friends in Unexpected Quarters -- 5: The Teacher -- The Avant-Garde of Haskala -- The German Translation of the Pentateuch -- Obstacles on the Road -- Completing the Work -- 6: Political Reformer -- Spokesman of his People -- Cooperation with Dohm -- A Momentous Event and a New Tract for the Times -- The Issue of Educational Reform -- The Summer of 1782 -- Jerusalem -- 7: Strains and Stresses -- Friendship with Lessing: The Last Phase -- A Projected Essay on Lessing's Character -- Jacobi's Attitude toward Mendelssohn: Antecedents of their Conflict -- An Uneasy Correspondence -- 8: Guardian of the Enlightenment -- The Contest -- Literary Activity: 1783-1785 -- Morning Hours -- In Combat -- The Social and Domestic Scene -- The End -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index of Subjects and Names
N2  - 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
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