"To Love the Rest of His Thoughts as Myself" - Translating Mendelssohn's Singular Bildung
The conceptual history of Bildung, the German term for self-formation, encapsulates the ethical revolution of modern German thought, associated with the Kantian moment and its aftermath. Reshaped in modernity to respond to a post-Kantian, critical sensibility, the modern term emphasizes the reflexiv...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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De Gruyter
2021
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Naharaim
Год: 2021, Том: 15, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 201-220 |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
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B Moral Perfectionism B Mendelssohn B Pantheism affair B Contingency |
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| Итог: | The conceptual history of Bildung, the German term for self-formation, encapsulates the ethical revolution of modern German thought, associated with the Kantian moment and its aftermath. Reshaped in modernity to respond to a post-Kantian, critical sensibility, the modern term emphasizes the reflexive, active process of self-formation, in contrast with the medieval theological sensibility which emphasized the receptive imprint of the image of God. In this article, I unpack Moses Mendelsohn's idiosyncratic notion of Bildung. I show that what is unique, indeed, singular in Mendelssohn's notion of Bildung is the way it merges the traditional, theological notion with the modern one. For Mendelssohn, to imitate God is to come to value one’s contingent being. The imitation of the ideal, the most perfect, is tantamount to embracing the perfectible, and the process of perfection or self-actualization. Jacobi, Mendelssohn, Bildung, Contingency, Pantheism affair, Moral Perfectionism. |
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| ISSN: | 1862-9156 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Naharaim
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/naha-2021-0014 |