TY - JOUR AU - Kaufman, Igor PY - 2018/12/13 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Moses Mendelssohn and Formation of Jewish Culture in the Time of Enlightenment: Political and Language Aspects JF - Sententiae JA - Sent VL - 37 IS - 2 SE - REVIEWS DO - 10.22240/sent37.02.165 UR - https://sententiae.vntu.edu.ua/index.php/sententiae/article/view/418 SP - 165-182 AB - <p>The review demonstrates that there are four main historiographical approaches to explanation of the role of Mendelssohn’s philosophy in the emergence of the Haskalah project: (1) traditional approach (created by the Jewish historiography in the second half of the 19<sup>th</sup> century; it stressed secular&nbsp; and culture-centered character of Haskalah, making it closer to German intellectual tradition); (2) social historiography (it treated Haskalah as a consequence of and reaction to the processes of global social and political modernization); (3) the approach practiced by researchers of early Jewish proponents of Enlightenment’s (determination of the intellectual foundations of Haskalah in the early <em>Maskilim</em> projects); (4) the researches of Mendelssohn's Jewish texts, the concept of “Political Theology”, and&nbsp; the interpretation of Mendelssohn’s ideas in the works of Leo Strauss (new interpretation of the role of Mendelssohn in the creation of Haskalah).</p> ER -