Die Aufhellung des Judentums im Platonismus: Zu den jüdisch-platonischen Quellen des Deutschen Idealismus, dargestellt anhand von Hegels Auseinandersetzung mit Philon von Alexandria

This study traces G. W. F. Hegel's intellectual engagement with the Jewish Platonist Philo of Alexandria. In a historic-systematical investigation, Strauss elucidates the ambivalence of Hegel's image of Philo. Hegel understood him as a transitional figure between Judaism and Christianity. At the same time, he saw Philo's thought as an early form of Neo-Platonism in which the Biblical God encounters the metaphysical Logos of the Greeks for the first time.