Socrates and the Jews: Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud

London: University of Chicago Press (2012)
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Illustrating how the encounter between Athens and Jerusalem became a lightning rod for intellectual concerns, this book is a sophisticated addition to the history of ideas.

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B181.L46 2012

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9780226472478

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10.7208/9780226472492
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Introduction: Athens and Jerusalem

1. Socrates and the Reason of Judaism: Moses Mendelssohn and Immanuel Kant

2. Noah and Noesis: Greeks, Jews and the Hegelian Dialectic

3. Matthew Arnold in Zion: Hebrews, Hellenes, Aryans, and Semites

4. Greeks, Jews, and the Death of God: Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche

5. Moses on the Acropolis: Sigmund Freud

Epilogue: “Metaphors we live by...”

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