“Thus Rome shows us our True Place”: Reflections on the German Jewish Love for Italy

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. I
5. The Emergence of Modern Religion: Moses Mendelssohn, Neoclassicism, and Ceremonial Aesthetics 11
6. Moses Mendelssohn and the Three Paths of German Jewish Thought 31
7. Reciting Jesus: Heine’s Nazarene Family Relations 43
8. Religious Reform and Political Revolution in Mid-nineteenth Century Germany: The Case of Abraham Jakob Adler 59
9. II
10. Love-of-Neighbor and Ethics Out of Law in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen 83
11. Hermann Cohen’s Lturgical Reasoning on the Moral Subject and the Moral Community 115
12. The Discovery of the “True Plato” in Some Twentieth-Century German Jewish Thinkers 133
13. Speaking Metaphysically of a Metaphysical God: Rosenzweig, Schelling, and the Metaphysical Divide 151
14. Verification (Bewährung) in Franz Rosenzweig 167
15. “Within Earshot of the Young Hegel”: Rosenzweig’s Letter to Rudolf Ehrenberg of September 1910 185
16. “Brother Where Art Thou?” Reflections on Jesus in Martin Buber and the Hasidic Master R. Shmuel Bornstein of Sochaczev 209
17. III
18. “Thus Rome shows us our True Place”: Reflections on the German Jewish Love for Italy 241
19. Facing Plurality (from Marginality): The German-Jewish Reception of William James 263
20. Leo Strauss on Lessing’s Spinozism 289
21. Strauss, Schmitt, and Peterson, or: Comparative Contours of the “Theological-Political Predicament” 317
22. “Let me tell you a story”: Walter Benjamin and the History of the Future 335
23. Jacob Taubes, Karl Löwith, and the Interpretation of Jewish History 349
24. The Jews They Were and the Philosophers They Wished to Become 371
25. No “Love of the Jewish People”? Robert Weltsch’s and Hans Jonas’s Correspondence with Hannah Arendt on Eichmann in Jerusalem 387
26. Bibliography Paul Mendes-Flohr 433
27. List of Authors 453