Mixed feelings : : tropes of love in German Jewish culture / / Katja Garloff.

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 literature (and...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, New York : : Cornell University Press,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Notes:Previously issued in print: 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I 1800: Romantic Love and the Beginnings of Jewish Emancipation
  • 1. Interfaith Love and the Pursuit of Emancipation Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  • 2. Romantic Love and the Denial of Difference Friedrich Schlegel and Dorothea Veit
  • 3. Figures of Love in Later Romantic Antisemitism Achim von Arnim
  • Part II 1900: The Crisis of Jewish Emancipation and Assimilation
  • 4. Refiguring the Language of Race Ludwig Jacobowski, Max Nordau, Georg Hermann
  • 5. Eros and Thanatos in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Sigmund Freud, Otto Weininger, Arthur Schnitzler
  • 6. Revelatory Love, or the Dynamics of Dissimilation Franz Rosenzweig and Else Lasker-Schüler
  • Conclusion: Toward the Present and the Future Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, Barbara Honigmann
  • Bibliography
  • Index