Modern Jewish Thinkers

Historical conditions at the end of the eighteenth century opened an arena between the formerly autonomous Jewish community and the Christian world, which yielded new departure points for philosophy: Revelation and philosophical reason, dialectically considered; rationalism as intellection and advancing consciousness, heteronomous revelation, historicity, and universal morality. This anthology restructures the history of modern Jewish thought in comprehensive fashion, and provides first-time English translations of Reggio, Krokhmal, Maimon, Samuel Hirsch, Formstecher, Steinheim, Ascher, Einhorn, Samuel David Luzzatto and Hermann Cohen. The availability of these sources fills a gap in the field, and stimulates new directions for teaching and scholarly research in modern Jewish thought - going beyond Spinoza and Mendelssohn at one end, and popular 20th century figures on the other.