TY - BOOK AU - Librett,Jeffrey S. TI - Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew SN - 9780823262915 U1 - 303.48/2430509034 23 PY - 2014///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Fordham University Press, KW - East and West KW - Jews in literature KW - Jews KW - Public opinion KW - Orientalism in literature KW - Orientalism KW - Germany KW - History KW - Philosophy, German KW - Jewish Studies KW - Middle Eastern Studies KW - Philosophy & Theory KW - RELIGION / Judaism / History KW - bisacsh KW - Buber KW - Edward Said KW - Freud KW - German Idealism KW - German Romanticism KW - Goethe KW - Hegel KW - Herder KW - Kafka KW - Schlegel KW - Schopenhauer KW - anti-Semitism KW - deconstruction KW - disavowal KW - fetishism KW - figural interpretation KW - modernity KW - psychoanalysis KW - supercessionism KW - typology N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Orientalism as Typology, or How to Disavow the Modern Abyss --; Part I. Historicist Orientalism: Transcendental Historiography from Johann Gottfried Herder to Arthur Schopenhauer --; Part II. How Not to Appropriate Orientalist Typology: Some Modernist Responses to Historicism --; Conclusion: For an Abstract Historiography of the Nonexistent Present --; Notes --; Index; restricted access N2 - Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew proposes a new way of understanding modern Orientalism. Tracing a path of modern Orientalist thought in German across crucial writings from the late eighteenth to the mid–twentieth centuries, Librett argues that Orientalism and anti-Judaism are inextricably entangled.Librett suggests, further, that the Western assertion of “material” power, in terms of which Orientalism is often read, is overdetermined by a “spiritual” weakness: an anxiety about the absence of absolute foundations and values that coincides with Western modernity itself. The modern West, he shows, posits an Oriental origin as a fetish to fill the absent place of lacking foundations. This fetish is appropriated as Western through a quasi-secularized application of Christian typology. Further, the Western appropriation of the “good” Orient always leaves behind the remainder of the “bad,” inassimilable Orient.The book traces variations on this theme through historicist and idealist texts of the nineteenth century and then shows how high modernists like Buber, Kafka, Mann, and Freud place this historicist narrative in question. The book concludes with the outlines of a cultural historiography that would distance itself from the metaphysics of historicism, confronting instead its underlying anxieties UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823262946 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823262946 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823262946/original ER -