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Letter to Ludwig Strauss on Zionism
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 October 10, 1912Berlin-GrunewaldDelbrückstr. 23 Dear Mr. Strauß!That Jewishness is an inner substance is also my assessment, which, like all reflections and insights concerning my attitude toward…

Contributor:

Walter Benjamin

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Zionism, Jewish identity, Philosophy, Modernity, Letters

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Firsthand accounts, Letters
Letter to the Friends of Lessing (On the Spinoza Conversations between Lessing and Jacobi)
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Our friend’s devotion to Spinozism is not to be seen as a mere hypothesis (as the Patriarch in Nathan puts it), postulated simply in order to discuss its pros and cons. Herr Jacobi, a man of…

Contributor:

Moses Mendelssohn

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1786

Subjects:

Philosophy, Polemics, Scholarship, Theology, Enlightenment, Letters, Science & philosophy

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters, Metaphysics, Science & philosophy
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Letters to Conrad Habicht
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Bern, Thursday [18 or 25 May 1905]Dear Habicht,Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential…

Contributor:

Albert Einstein

Places:

Bern, Switzerland

Date:

1905

Subjects:

Math, Scholarship, Education, Letters

Categories:

Letters, Science & philosophy