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The Other Jewish Question – Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity

Autor Jay Geller
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2011
This book examines how modernizing German-speaking cultures, undergoing their own processes of identification, responded to the narcissistic threat posed by the continued persistence of Judentum (Judaism, Jewry, Jewishness) by representing "the Jew"'s body-or rather parts of that body and the techniques performed upon them. Such fetish-producing practices reveal the question of German-identified modernity to be inseparable from the Jewish Question. But Jewish-identified individuals, immersed in the phantasmagoria of such figurations-in the gutter and garret salon, medical treatise and dirty joke, tabloid caricature and literary depiction, church façade and bric-a-brac souvenir-had their own question, another Jewish Question. They also had other answers, for these physiognomic fragments not only identified "the Jew" but also became for some Jewish-identified individuals the building blocks for working through their particular situations and relaying their diverse responses. The Other Jewish Question maps the dissemination of and interrelationships among these corporeal signifiers in Germanophone cultures between the Enlightenment and the Shoah. Its analyses of ascribed Jewish physiognomy include tracing the gendered trajectory of the reception of Benedict Spinoza's correlation of Jewish persistence, anti-Semitism, and circumcision; the role of Zopf ("braid") in mediating German Gentile-Jewish relations; the skin(ny) on the association of Jews and syphilis in Arthur Dinter's antisemitic bestseller Sin against the Blood and Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf; as well as the role of Jewish corporeality in the works of such Jewish-identified authors as Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, Max Nordau, Franz Kafka, and Walter Benjamin, as well as such "Jew"-identifying writers as Ludwig Feuerbach and Daniel Paul Schreber. The Other Jewish Question portrays how Jewish-identified individuals moved beyond introjection and disavowal to appropriate and transform this epidemic of signification to make sense of their worlds and our modernity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780823233625
ISBN-10: 0823233626
Pagini: 530
Dimensiuni: 154 x 227 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Wiley

Recenzii

"A fascinating book about Jewish embodiment and the complex relationship between the Jewish body and German-Jewish modernity."--Todd Presner, University of California, Los Angeles"Jay Geller refers to Sander Gilman's early studies on the Jewish body, considers psychoanalytic theory as well as Jacques Derrida's attention to the text, and finds a voice that is very much his own. His The Other Jewish Question is nothing less than a tour de force--a review of German literary and philosophical texts from the early nineteenth (Rahel Varnhagen's letters) to the early twentieth century (Walter Benjamin's essays) that give evidence of the central importance of the figure of the Jew for the conception of what we now call 'modernity'."-Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania"In this elegantly crafted and stunningly erudite exposition, Jay Geller explores the 'persistence' of the Jew as marked by difference, at least in the imagination of others, is to be understood as an index of the tortured emergence of Western modernity."-Paul Mendes-Flohr, The University of Chicago, Divinity School

Notă biografică

Jay Geller is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Culture in the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. His On Freud's Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumcisions was published by Fordham.