TY - BOOK ID - 5559815 TI - The Legacy of Liberal Judaism PY - 2013 SN - 9781782380078 9781782380085 1782380086 1299954596 9781299954595 1782380078 PB - New York Oxford DB - UniCat KW - Reform Judaism KW - Jewish philosophy KW - Judaïsme réformé KW - Philosophie juive KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophie KW - Cassirer, Ernst, KW - Arendt, Hannah, KW - Religion. KW - Judaïsme réformé KW - Philosophy. KW - Jewish Studies, History (General). UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5559815 AB - Comparing the liberal Jewish ethics of the German-Jewish philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt, this book argues that both espoused a diasporic, worldly conception of Jewish identity that was anchored in a pluralist and politically engaged interpretation of Jewish history and an abiding interest in the complex lived reality of modern Jews. Arendt's indebtedness to liberal Jewish thinkers such as Moses Mendelssohn, Abraham Geiger, Hermann Cohen, and Ernst Cassirer has been obscured by her modernist posture and caustic critique of the assimilationism of her German-Jewish forebears. By r ER -