ISBN:
9780823266401
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 357 pages)
,
Illustrations (black and white)
Edition:
First edition.
DDC:
303.482430509034
Keywords:
Geistesgeschichte 1800-1930
;
Orientbild
;
Orientalismus
;
Judenbild
;
Deutsch
;
Literatur
;
Philosophie
;
Orientalism History
;
Orientalism
;
Philosophy, German
;
Jews Public opinion
;
Public opinion
;
Jews in literature
;
Orientalism in literature
;
East and West
;
Deutschland
;
Germany Intellectual life
Abstract:
'Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew' proposes a new way of understanding modern Orientalism. Retracing the path of modern Orientalist thought in German across crucial writings from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, the book argues that Orientalism and anti-Judaism are inextricably entangled. The book suggests, further, that the violent colonialist assertion of Western 'material' power in the East is predicated in the modern period upon a 'spiritual' weakness of the West: its panic or anxiety about an absence of absolute foundations and values entailed by modernity itself.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.5422/fordham/9780823262915.001.0001
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823262915.001.0001
