Reading Maimonides' philosophy in 19th century Germany

Kohler George Y.

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Springer, Dordrecht

2012

373 Pages

ISBN 978-94-007-4034-1

Reading Maimonides' philosophy in 19th century Germany

the guide to religious reform

George Y. Kohler

The general subject of the book is the re-discovery of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed by the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement in Germany of the nineteenth and beginning twentieth Germany. Since this movement is inseparably connected with religious reforms that took place at about the same time, it shall be demonstrated how the Reform Movement in Judaism used the Guide for its own agenda of historizing, rationalizing and finally turning Judaism into a philosophical enterprise of ‘ethical monotheism’. The studyfollows the reception of Maimonidean thought, and the Guide specifically, through the nineteenth century, from the first beginnings of early reformers in 1810 and their reading of Maimonides to the development of a sophisticated reform-theology, based on Maimonides, in the writings of Hermann Cohen more then a hundred years later.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4035-8

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Kohler, G. Y. (2012). Reading Maimonides' philosophy in 19th century Germany: the guide to religious reform, Springer, Dordrecht.

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Introduction

Kohler George Y.

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