Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-384) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: from the rhetoric of dialogue to the end of Jewish-German emancipation -- Judaism between power and knowledge: the undecidability of the Law in Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem, or On religious power and Judaism (1783) -- The ontorhetoric of "refined pantheism" in Moses Mendelssohn's Morning hours, or Lectures on the existence of God (1785) -- The birth of German Romanticism out of the "dialogue" between (Protestant) spirit and (Jewish) letter: Friedrich Schlegel's "On Lessing" (1797) and its "Conclusion" (1801) -- Duplicitous engenderments of the literal spirit: Friedrich Schlegel's "On philosophy: to Dorothea" (1798) and Lucinde (1799) -- Resisting "fulfillment": the undecidable limit between figural and literal in Dorothea Veit's Florentin: a novel (1801) -- Protestant negativity as "prefiguration" of Neo-Catholic positivity in Friedrich Schlegel's Lessing's thoughts and opinions (1804) -- The reversal of emancipation on the left: Karl Marx's "On the Jewish question" (1843) -- The reversal of emancipation on the right: Richard Wagner's "Judaism in music" (1850) -- Postscript: through modernism to--"emancipation" from Holocaust memory?
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