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[1.] Judith and Delilah: The second sex and its outsiders -- The scandal of Joan of Arc: Schiller, Shaw, Brecht, Vishnevskii -- Judith as bourgeois heroine -- The bourgeois way of life as an alternative -- Excursus: Otto Weininger, Sex and character -- Delilah as bourgeois vamp -- Women's liberation and Norman Mailer -- The world of images of women -- [2.] Sodom: A chronicle of murders and scandal -- Christopher Marlowe and King Edward II of England -- Winckelmann's death and the discovery of a double life -- The conflict between Heine and Platen -- Alternatives in the nineteenth century -- Concerning the typology of homosexual literature -- The alternatives of Klaus Mann and Maurice Sachs -- The turning point of Jean Genet -- [3.] Shylock: From Ahasuerus to Shylock -- The Jew of Malta and the Jew of Venice -- The wise Nathan and the bandit Spiegelberg: the antinomies of Jewish emancipation in Germany -- The bourgeois Shylock -- Jewish figures in the bourgeois novel -- Jewish self-hate -- Comrade Shylock -- Hatred of Jews after Auschwitz. |
