German idealism and the Jew : the inner anti-semitism of philosophy and German Jewish responses /
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University of Chicago Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the political, philosophical, theological, sociological, and literary critical ramifications of anti-semitism
- Pt. 1 Narratives
- Positing immutability in religion: Kant
- 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
- Pt. 2 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
- 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.