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Mendelssohn, Moses : MOSES MENDELSSOHN'S SÄMMTLICHE WERKE : AUSGABE IN EINEM BANDE ALS NATIONAL-DENKMAL ; MIT DEM IN KUPFER GESTOCHENEN BILDNISSE DES GROEN WELTWEISEN

Wien Schmidl Und Klang, 1838

1st single volume edition. Later cloth, 8vo, 1016, [1] pages. Includes fronts engraving of Mendelssohn. In German. Collected works of Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) , 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. SUBJECT(S) : Aesthetics. Philosophy. OCLC lists only 5 copies in the US (American Jewish U, UC-Irvine, UC-Santa Cruz, Brandeis, Ohio State) , none in New York. Foxing, otherwise Very Good Condition. (Ger-50-4)

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