1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910159453803321

Autore

Garloff Katja

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, New York : , : Cornell University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-5017-0656-X

1-5017-0601-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Signale

Disciplina

305.892/404309034

Soggetti

Jews - Germany - History - 1800-1933

Electronic books.

Germany Ethnic relations History 19th century

Germany Ethnic relations History 20th century

Gemany Intellectual life 19th century

Gemany Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 philosophy) to use love between individuals as a metaphor for group relations. This question is of renewed interest today, when theorists of multiculturalism turn toward love in their search for new models of particularity and universality. Mixed Feelings is structured around two transformative moments in German Jewish culture and history that produced particularly rich clusters of interfaith love stories. Around 1800, literature promoted the rise of the Romantic love ideal and the shift from prearranged to love-based marriages. In the German-speaking countries, this change in the theory and practice of love coincided with the beginnings of Jewish emancipation, and both its supporters and opponents linked their arguments to tropes of love. Garloff explores the generative powers of such tropes in Moses Mendelssohn, G. E. Lessing, Friedrich Schlegel, Dorothea Veit, and Achim von Arnim. Around 1900, the rise of racial antisemitism had called into question the promises of emancipation and led to a crisis of German Jewish identity. At the same time, Jewish-Christian intermarriage prompted public debates that were tied up with racial discourses and concerns about procreation, heredity, and the mutability and immutability of the Jewish body. Garloff shows how modern German Jewish writers such as Arthur Schnitzler, Else Lasker-Schüler, and Franz Rosenzweig wrest the idea of love away from biologist thought and reinstate it as a model of sociopolitical relations. She concludes by tracing the relevance of this model in post-Holocaust works by Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and Barbara Honigmann.



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Record Nr.

UNISA996390443403316

Autore

Pinder Richard <d. 1695.>

Titolo

The captive (that hath long been in captivity) visited with the day-spring from on high. Or the prisoner (that hath fitten in the prison-house of woful darkness) freed into the everlasting light and covenant of God, in which perfect peace and satisfaction is [[electronic resource] ] : Written by way of conference, and sent out into the world for the sake of those who have long groped upon the tops of the dark mountains, where the barrennesse and emptinesse is, without the knowledge of the true light to be their guide, that they (as in a glass) may see themselves, and read what hath been the cause why they have so long sought, and not found that they have sought for. Given forth especially for the sake of the scattered people in America, by one who labors for and waits to see the elect gathered from the four quarters of the earth, known by the name of Richard Pinder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed for Thomas Simmons at the sign of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate, 1660

Descrizione fisica

[2], 5-39, [1], 40-45 p

Soggetti

Covenant theology

Spiritual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title page is on A2; preliminary leaf lacking?.

Caption title on p. 7  reads: The captive visited: &c.

"Postscript" begins on p. 40.

Reproduction of the original in the Friends House Library, London.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0080