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Book SynopsisNewly translated treatises from the great Enlightenment thinker
Trade Review"An expertly produced volume that will contribute to a vibrant conversation on the fate of the Enlightenment, the beginning of modern liberal Judaism, and the origins of German idealism. Students of eighteenth-century German thought will henceforth refer to this work."--Peter Fenves, author of
The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time"This volume will surely be a widely welcomed contribution to the study of modern Jewish thought and European intellectual history. Bruce Rosenstock's elegant translation and scholarly introduction render Mendelssohn's
Last Works accessible to beginning and advanced students of general and Jewish intellectual history."--Paul Mendes-Flohr, coeditor of
The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History
