No Religion without Idolatry offers an interpretation of Mendelssohn¿s general philosophy and discusses for the first time his semiotic interpretation of idolatry in his commentaries.
Moses Mendelssohn (1725-1786) is considered the foremost representative of Jewish Enlightenment. In No Religion without Idolatry, Gideon Freudenthal offers a novel interpretation of Mendelssohn's general philosophy and discusses for the first time Mendelssohn's semiotic interpretation of idolatry in his Jerusalem and in his Hebrew biblical commentary. Mendelssohn emerges from this study as an original philosopher, not a shallow popularizer of ...
The texts of Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann assembled in this volume are important contributions to the historiography of the Scienti?c Revolution and to the methodology of the historiography of science. They are of course also historical documents, not only testifying to Marxist discourse of the time but also illustrating typical European fates in the ?rst half of the twentieth century. Hessen was born a Jewish subject of the Russian Czar ...
The texts of Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann assembled in this volume are important contributions to the historiography of the Scienti?c Revolution and to the methodology of the historiography of science. They are of course also historical documents, not only testifying to Marxist discourse of the time but also illustrating typical European fates in the ?rst half of the twentieth century. Hessen was born a Jewish subject of the Russian Czar ...
Freudenthals Untersuchung rekonstruiert die Genese der mechanistischen Theorieform, die die Newtonsche Mechanik ebenso wie zeitgenössische philosophische Systeme und Sozialtheorien kennzeichnet. Die Herausbildung einer spezifischen analytisch-synthetischen Methode, die zu dieser Theorieform führt, wird aufgrund theoretischer Prämissen erklärt, die eine bestimmte Interpretation von Verfahren der Technik bedingen. Der Nachweis, daß diese Prämiss...
Freudenthals Untersuchung rekonstruiert die Genese der mechanistischen Theorieform, die die Newtonsche Mechanik ebenso wie zeitgenössische philosophische Systeme und Sozialtheorien kennzeichnet. Die Herausbildung einer spezifischen analytisch-synthetischen Methode, die zu dieser Theorieform führt, wird aufgrund theoretischer Prämissen erklärt, die eine bestimmte Interpretation von Verfahren der Technik bedingen. Der Nachweis, daß diese Prämiss...
