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...insulated community that ensured conformance to tradition. Emancipation freed the Jew from the confines of community, and coming in contact with the ideas of the Enlightenment freed him from reliance on the tradition of Jewish theology. But the price of liberty was high. Under the influence of Lessing and Kant, Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) stripped Judaism of its supernatural quality by arguing that it was essentially a rational faith. Even the greatest of modern Jewish thinkers, Jerusalem's influential "existential humanist" Martin Buber, dramatically envisions Judaism as an encounter between the "I" of man and the "Thou...
...since all his reviews sound as if he had written the books himself. The trouble with Kazin, who writes for the weekly and monthly press, is that although his judgments are consistently shrewd and sound, his pieces read as if the books they discuss had been written by Immanuel Kant...
Rumors that the next production would be a take-off on Phil 1 with President Pusey playing Immanuel Kant and David Riesman as Socrates could not be substantiated...
...Western opposite of the fallen University of Berlin, which the Russians plucked when the Allies sliced Berlin four ways. The old university-founded in 1810 by Wilhelm von Humboldt and once among Europe's greatest-had a history rich with the influence of Hegel, Fichte, Kant, Goethe and Leibnitz. The Nazis killed all that; the Russians buried it. The East Berlin plant survives as Humboldt University, a dreary institution with about 10,000 students. Humboldt nearly exploded during the Hungarian revolt in 1956; scores of its students and professors have vanished into East German jails, and many have been...
...morality. If one fact more than any other links Catcher to its generation, it is that for Holden?as presumably for his creator?the ultimate condemnation is summed up in the word phony. A whole, vague system of ethics centers around that word, and Holden Caulfield is its Kant...