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Author:

Librett, Jeffrey S.

Title:

The rhetoric of cultural dialogue : Jews and Germans from Moses Mendelssohn to Richard Wagner and beyond / Jeffrey S. Librett.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

xxiii, 391 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Jews--Germany--History--1800-1933.
Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--18th century.
Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--19th century.
Judaism--Christianity.--Christianity.
Christianity and other religions--Judaism.
Jews--Cultural assimilation--Germany.
Jews--Germany
Jews in literature.
Judaism in literature
German literature--History and criticism.
Germany--Jewish influences.--Jewish influences.
Germany--Ethnic relations.

Notes:

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?

Series:

Cultural memory in the present

ISBN:

9780804739313 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804739315 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804736220 (alk. paper)
0804736227 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43969030
(OCoLC)50401057

LCCN:

00055707

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)