Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew /

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"This book demonstrates the inextricable entanglement of Orientalism and anti-Judaism in modern German letters. It shows how historicist narratives posit the Orient as fetish in lieu of absent origins, then appropriate this fetish by applying to the East-West relation the Christian supercession...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Librett, Jeffrey S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
East and West.
Orientalism in literature.
Jews in literature.
Public opinion > Germany.
Jews > Public opinion.
Philosophy, German.
Orientalism.
Orientalism > Germany > History.
Germany > Intellectual life.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
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  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Orientalism as Typology, or How to Disavow the Modern Abyss 1
  • Part I. Historicist Orientalism: Transcendental Historiography from Johann Gottfried Herder to Arthur Schopenhauer
  • 1. Ordering Chaos: The Orient in J. G. Herder's Teleological Historicism
  • 2. Figuralizing the Oriental, Literalizing the Jew: From Letter to Spirit in Friedrich Schlegel's On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians
  • 3. Goethe's Orientalizing Moment (I): "Notes and Treatises for the Better Understanding of the West-East Divan"
  • 4. Goethe's Orientalizing Moment (II): The Poetry of the West-East Divan Excursus: Jussuph and the Question of Anti-Semitism in Goethe
  • 5. Thresholds of History: India and the Limits of Europe in Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of History
  • Excursus: The History of Panic-Angst und Notgeschrei
  • 6. Taking Up Groundlessness, Fulfilling Fulfillment: Schopenhauer's Orientalist Metaphysics between Indians and Jews
  • Part II. How Not to Appropriate Orientalist Typology: Some Modernist Responses to Historicism
  • 7. Dialectical Development or Partial Construction? Martin Buber and Franz Kafka Excursus on a Brief Excursus-Concerning Babel
  • 8. The Dreamwork of History: Orientalism and Originary Disfiguration in Freud's Moses and Monotheism Excursus: Edward Said and the Identity of the Different, or Freud in Palestine
  • Conclusion: For an Abstract Historiography of the Nonexistent Present
  • Notes
  • Index.

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