Last Works

by Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the central figure in the emancipation of European Jewry. His intellect, judgment, and tact won the admiration and friendship of contemporaries as illustrious as Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and Immanuel Kant. His enormously influential Jerusalem (1783) made the case for religious tolerance, a cause he worked for all his life. Last Works includes, for the first time complete and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252036875
• ISBN13: 9780252036873
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"