German Idealism and the Jew - The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses

Informationen zum Autor Michael Mack is a Minerva Amos de Shalit fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Research Center for German Jewish Literature and Cultural History at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of many books! most recently Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity and How Literature Changes the Way We Think. Klappentext Uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition! contending that the redefinition of the Jews as an irrational! oriental Other forms the very cornerstone of German idealism. "Mack makes a significant and innovative contribution to two heavily traversed fields: tha causes of the Shoah, and the ambiguous legacy of philosophical modernity."--Byron Smith "German Quarterly " Zusammenfassung Uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition! contending that the redefinition of the Jews as an irrational! oriental Other forms the very cornerstone of German idealism.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Mack
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2013
• EAN: 9780226500966
• ISBN: 978-0-226-50096-6
• No. of pages: 237
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Germany, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities