Legacy of Liberal Judaism

Ned Curthoys is a Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. He has co-edited two edited collections, Edward Said: the Legacy of a Public-Intellectual (Melbourne University Press, 2007) and Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment (Pickering and Chatto, 2013) and has contributed to journals including Theory and Event, Comparative Literature Studies, Intellectual History Review and Journal of Genocide Research.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. 'This Man of Our Destiny': Moses Mendelssohn, Nathan the Wise, and the emergence of a Liberal Jewish EthosChapter 2. Diasporic Visions: The emergence of Liberal JudaismChapter 3. Abraham Geiger: Rabbi and WriterChapter 4. Hermann Cohen's Prophetic JudaismChapter 5. Ernst Cassirer and the Ethical Legacy of Hermann CohenChapter 6. Ernst Cassirer: The Enlightenment as Counter-HistoryChapter 7. Hannah Arendt: The Task of the HistorianChapter 8. Hannah Arendt: A Question of CharacterConclusion: The Legacies of Liberal JudaismBibliographyIndex

"Most readers will finish this work with a renewed appreciation of the continuing significance of the moral vision articulated by these exemplars of liberal Judaism." Choice