Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew / / Jeffrey S. Librett.
Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew proposes a new way of understanding modern Orientalism. Tracing a path of modern Orientalist thought in German across crucial writings from the late eighteenth to the mid–twentieth centuries, Librett argues that Orientalism and anti-Judaism are inextricably enta...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Orientalism as Typology, or How to Disavow the Modern Abyss
- Part I. Historicist Orientalism: Transcendental Historiography from Johann Gottfried Herder to Arthur Schopenhauer
- Part II. How Not to Appropriate Orientalist Typology: Some Modernist Responses to Historicism
- Conclusion: For an Abstract Historiography of the Nonexistent Present
- Notes
- Index