Author: Mendelssohn, Moses.
Title: Moses Mendelssohn's Philosophische Schriften. Erster-Zweyter Theil.
Description: Verbesserte Auflage, Berlin : Bey Christian Friedrich Voss, 1771. 2 parts in one volume.Contemporary halfcalf binding, xxii,278; [2],283,[1] pp. With engraved frontispiece & engraved vignettes on both title pages. Inside clean copy. Notes in old hand on free endpapers. Spines chipped & sl. damaged. Binding bit rubbed. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : . - Revised edition of Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) philosophical writings, first published in 1761. He was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the renaissance of European Jews, Haskalah (the Jewish Enlightenment) is indebted. He was a creative and eclectic thinker whose writings on metaphysics and aesthetics, political theory and theology, together with his Jewish heritage, placed him at the focal point of the German Enlightenment for over three decades. While Mendelssohn found himself at home with a metaphysics derived from writings of Leibniz, Wolff, and Baumgarten, he was also one of his age's most accomplished literary critics. His highly regarded pieces on works of Homer and Aesop, Pope and Burke, Maupertuis and Rousseau to cite only a fraction of his numerous critical essays appeared in a series of journals that he co-edited with G. F. Lessing and Friedrich Nicolai. Dubbed the Jewish Luther, Mendelssohn also contributed significantly to the life of the Jewish community and letters in Germany, campaigning for Jews' civil rights and translating the Pentateuch and the Psalms into German. Goedeke 4,1, p.488,6; Fürst II, 362.

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