Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: GERMAN-JEWISH IDEALISM AND ITS CRITICS

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 568.