Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1 ‘This Man of Our Destiny’: Moses Mendelssohn, Nathan the Wise and the Emergence of a Liberal Jewish Ethos 14
6. Chapter 2 Diasporic Visions: The Emergence of Liberal Judaism 44
7. Chapter 3 Abraham Geiger: Rabbi and Writer 66
8. Chapter 4 Hermann Cohen’s Prophetic Judaism 82
9. Chapter 5 Ernst Cassirer and the Ethical Legacy of Hermann Cohen 103
10. Chapter 6 Ernst Cassirer: The Enlightenment as Counter-History 139
11. Chapter 7 Hannah Arendt: The Task of the Historian 162
12. Chapter 8 Hannah Arendt: A Question of Character 194
13. Conclusion The Legacies of Liberal Judaism 213
14. Bibliography 217
15. Index 231