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 literature (a...

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Main Author: Garloff, Katja (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2016.
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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.