RELJ 8752 - Tutorial: Theopolitics Modern Judaism II: Mendelssohn & the Enlightenment

Effective Start Date: 07/06/2021
Tutorial 2 in sequence of 3. Mendelssohn’s book Jerusalem, or on Religious Power (1783), the center of our discussion and a response to Hobbes, Spinoza, and Locke, is both a theory of government & a novel interpretation of Judaism, but also a program of enlightenment and modernization that has to be seen in the context of Jewish emancipation in the 18th century. The course introduces texts by Kant, Lessing, Herder, Friedlander, & Schleiermacher.

Credits: 3
Grading Basis: Graded