Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew /
"Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew proposes a new way of understanding modern German Orientalism in particular and modern Orientalism in general. To do so, it traces a path of modern Orientalist thought in German across crucial writings from the late eighteenth to the mid twentieth centurie...
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Contents
- Introduction: Orientalism as Typology, or How to Disavow the Modern Abyss
- Ordering Chaos: The Orient in J.G. Herder�s Teleological Historicism
- Figuralizing the Oriental, Literalizing the Jew: From Letter to Spirit in Friedrich Schlegel�s On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians
- Goetheâ€?s Orientalizing Moment (I): â€oeNotes and Treatises for the Better Understanding of the West-East Divanâ€?
- Goethe�s Orientalizing Moment (II): The Poetry of the West-East Divan
- Thresholds of History: India and the Limits of Europe in Hegel�s Lectures on the Philosophy of HistoryTaking Up Groundlessness, Fulfi lling Fulfi llment: Schopenhauer�s Orientalist Metaphysics between Indians and Jews
- Dialectical Development or Partial Construction?: Martin Buber and Franz Kafka
- The Dreamwork of History: Orientalism and Originary Disfi guration in Freud�s Moses and Monotheism
- Conclusion: For an Abstract Historiography of the Nonexistent Present
- notes
- index