God is good : the harmony between Judaism and Enlightenment philosophy -- Philosophy and law : shaping Judaism for the modern world -- Either/or : Jacobi's attack on the moderate Enlightenment -- Enlightenment reoriented : Mendelssohn's pragmatic religious idealism
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Michah Gottlieb offers a new reading of Moses Mendelssohn's life and writings, arguing that he defends pre-modern Jewish religious concepts sincerely, but unconsciously gives them a humanistic valence appropriate to life in a diverse, enlightened society