Mixed feelings : tropes of love in German Jewish culture /

Since the late eighteenth century, writers and thinkers have used the idea of love?often unrequited or impossible love?to comment on the changing cultural, social, and political position of Jews in the German-speaking countries. In 'Mixed Feelings', Katja Garloff asks what it means for lit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garloff, Katja (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2016.
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1800: romantic love and the beginnings of Jewish emancipation
  • Interfaith love and the pursuit of emancipation
  • Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  • Romantic love and the denial of difference
  • Friedrich Schlegel and Dorothea Veit
  • Figures of love in later Romantic antisemitism
  • Achim von Arnim
  • 1900: the crisis of Jewish emancipation and assimilation
  • Refiguring the language of race
  • Ludwig Jacobowski, Max Nordau, Georg Hermann
  • Eros and thanatos in fin-de-siecle Vienna
  • Sigmund Freud, Otto Weininger, Arthur Schnitzler
  • Revelatory love, or the dynamics of dissimilation
  • Franz Rosenzweig and Else Lasker-Schuler
  • Toward the present and the future
  • Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, Barbara Honigmann.