German Idealism and the Jew
Subtitle: The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: June 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780226500942
Subjects: History; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Sociology, Social Studies; Philosophy; Germany; History & Surveys - General; Jewish - General; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; General; Antisemitism; Idealism, German
First sentence: In the introduction I briefly examined the culmination of the German idealist fantasy about an immutable tie between Jehovah and his people.
Description: "In German Idealism and the Jew, Michael Mack uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition. While many have read German anti-Semitism as a reaction against Enlightenment philosophy, Mack instead contends that the redefinition of the Jews as irrational, oriental Others forms the very cornerstone of German idealism, including Kant's conception of universal reason."--Jacket.