Mehr zum Titel: | Introduction: the political, philosophical, theological, sociological, and literary critical ramifications of anti-semitismNarratives -- 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. |
