LEONARD, MIRIAM
Socrates and the Jews. Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2012. 248 pp. Very good copy. Orig. cloth with dustjacket. A few minor spots on the frontcover. What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? Asked by the early Christian Tertullian, the question was vigorously debated in the nineteenth century. While classics dominated the intellectual life of Europe, Christianity still prevailed and conflicts raged between the religious and the secular. Taking on the question of how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible, Socrates and the Jews explains how Judaism played a vital role in defining modern philhellenism. Exploring the tension between Hebraism and Hellenism, Miriam Leonard gracefully probes the philosophical tradition behind the development of classical philology and considers how the conflict became a preoccupation for the leading thinkers of modernity, including Matthew Arnold, Moses Mendelssohn, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. ISBN: 9780226472478
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