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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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Autor principal: Librett, Jeffrey S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
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  • Contents
  • Introduction: Orientalism as Typology, or How to Disavow the Modern Abyss
  • Ordering Chaos: The Orient in J.G. Herderâ€?s Teleological Historicism
  • Figuralizing the Oriental, Literalizing the Jew: From Letter to Spirit in Friedrich Schlegelâ€?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€?
  • Goetheâ€?s Orientalizing Moment (II): The Poetry of the West-East Divan
  • Thresholds of History: India and the Limits of Europe in Hegelâ€?s Lectures on the Philosophy of HistoryTaking Up Groundlessness, Fulfi lling Fulfi llment: Schopenhauerâ€?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 Freudâ€?s Moses and Monotheism
  • Conclusion: For an Abstract Historiography of the Nonexistent Present
  • notes
  • index