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082 0 4 _a303.48/2430509034
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aLibrett, Jeffrey S.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aOrientalism and the Figure of the Jew /
_cJeffrey S. Librett.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource (376 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: Orientalism as Typology, or How to Disavow the Modern Abyss --
_tPart I. Historicist Orientalism: Transcendental Historiography from Johann Gottfried Herder to Arthur Schopenhauer --
_tPart II. How Not to Appropriate Orientalist Typology: Some Modernist Responses to Historicism --
_tConclusion: For an Abstract Historiography of the Nonexistent Present --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aOrientalism 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aEast and West.
650 0 _aJews in literature.
650 0 _aJews
_xPublic opinion.
650 0 _aOrientalism in literature.
650 0 _aOrientalism
_zGermany
_xHistory.
650 0 _aOrientalism.
650 0 _aPhilosophy, German.
650 0 _aPublic opinion
_zGermany.
650 4 _aJewish Studies.
650 4 _aMiddle Eastern Studies.
650 4 _aPhilosophy & Theory.
650 7 _aRELIGION / Judaism / History.
_2bisacsh
653 _aBuber.
653 _aEdward Said.
653 _aFreud.
653 _aGerman Idealism.
653 _aGerman Romanticism.
653 _aGoethe.
653 _aHegel.
653 _aHerder.
653 _aJewish Studies.
653 _aKafka.
653 _aOrientalism.
653 _aSchlegel.
653 _aSchopenhauer.
653 _aanti-Semitism.
653 _adeconstruction.
653 _adisavowal.
653 _afetishism.
653 _afigural interpretation.
653 _amodernity.
653 _apsychoanalysis.
653 _asupercessionism.
653 _atypology.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823262946
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823262946
856 4 2 _3Cover
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999 _c202005
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