RELI 468 - GERMAN - JEWISH IDEALISM
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Department: Religion
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: GERMAN-JEWISH IDEALISM AND ITS CRITICS
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From the 18th century until 1933, writers imagined a symbiosis of Judaic and German philosophical and cultural ideas. Were they tragically deluded or guardedly optimistic? Discuss skepticism, romanticism, historicism, ethical monotheism, critical theory, and neo-conservatism. Readings selected from Mendelssohn, Spinoza, Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, Scholem, Benjamin, Arendt, and Strauss. Also offered with additional work as RELI 568.
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Course not offered 2004-2005.
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Instructor(s): Kaplan