German idealism and the Jew : the inner anti-Semitism of philosophy and German Jewish responses / Michael Mack.
| Author/creator | Mack, Michael |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003. |
| Description | viii, 229 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: the political, philosophical, theological, sociological, and literary critical ramifications of anti-Semitism -- 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 -- 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-220) and index. |
| LCCN | 2002152500 |
| ISBN | 0226500942 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | B2745 .M33 2003 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |