Berlin: Springer, 2003. — 259 p. — ISBN10: 1402015941; ISBN13: 978-1402015946 — (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées. Book 187)
This book is intended for scholars and students in humanities, history, Jewish studies, philosophy, Christian theology, and for those concerned with the roots of anti-Semitism and with the need for toleration and intercultural pluralism. The book combines the development of German philosophy from the Enlightenment to Idealism, and from Idealism to the revolutionary turning-point of the mid-nineteenth century with the Jewish question.
Prejudices and the philosophy of history
The question of assimilation and the starting point of the study
Our investigation
Reason, humanity and religions"True " religion and positive religions: Mendelssohn and Lavater
Emancipation, toleration and faith: Mendelssohn, Hamann and Jacobi
The redimensioning 0/ Enlightenment: dialogue between Wizenmann and Kant
Christianity, people and nationsLiberty, morality and the state: Fichte
Baptism and nationality: Schleiermacher and David Friedländer
Popular religion and reason: the first writings of Hegel at Tübingen and Bern
The fate of Judaism: the writings of Hegel at Frankfurt and Jena
The Sublime and the election of people: the Berlin Lessons
The impossible conciliation: Fries
Atheism, progress and revolutionJudaism and myths: Schelling and Strauss
Self-consciousness and social emancipation: Bruno Bauer and Karl Marx
Alienation, monotheism and humanism: Feuerbach, Daumer and Ghillany
Jewish Humanism and Messianism: Gotthold Salomon and Moses Hess