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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Mack |
ISBN: | 9780226500966 0226500969 9780226500942 0226500942 |
OCLC Number: | 858310143 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2003. |
Description: | viii, 229 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : The political, philosophical, theological, sociological, and literary critical ramifications of anti-semitism -- pt. 1. Narratives -- Positing immutability in religion : Kant -- The metaphysics of eating : Jewish dietary laws and Hegel's social theory -- Transforming the body into the body politic : Wagner and the trajectory of German idealism -- pt. 2. Counternarratives -- Moses Mendelssohn's other enlightenment and German Jewish counterhistories in the work of Heinrich Heine and Abraham Geiger -- Political anti-semitism and its German Jewish responses at the end of the nineteenth century : Heinrich Graetz and Otto Weininger -- Between Mendelssohn and Kant : Hermann Cohen's dual account of reason -- Franz Rosenzweig, or the body's independence from the body politic -- The politics of blood : Rosenzweig and Hegel -- Freud's other enlightenment : turning the tables on Kant -- Walter Benjamin's transcendental messianism, or the immanent transformation of the profane -- Conclusion : Elias Canetti, Franz Baermann Steiner, and Weimar's aftermath. |
Responsibility: | Michael Mack. |
Abstract:
Uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition, contending that the redefinition of the Jews as an irrational, oriental Other forms the very cornerstone of German idealism.
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"German Idealism and the Jew is a work long overdue, of great importance to scholarly understandings of Nazi Germany and anti-Semitism and the larger problem of the functioning of the scapegoat mechanism in chaotic societies." (Philosophy in Review)" Read more...
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