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Format: XXIII, 391 S. : Ill.

Edition: Orig. print.

ISBN: 0-8047-3622-7 , 0-8047-3931-5

Series Statement: Cultural memory in the present

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Geistesleben ; Juden

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URL: Table of contents

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Format: xv, 357 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm

Edition: First edition

ISBN: 9780823262915 , 9780823262922

Content: Zusammenfassung: "Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew proposes a new way of understanding modern German Orientalism in particular and modern Orientalism in general. To do so, it traces a path of modern Orientalist thought in German across crucial writings from the late eighteenth to the mid twentieth centuries, texts by Herder, F. Schlegel, Goethe, Hegel, Schopenhaer, Buber, Kafka, and Freud. It argues first of all that Orientalism and anti-Judaism are inextricably entangled. It suggests, further, that we misconstrue modern Orientalism if we see it exclusively as an expression of superior Western "material" power. Rather, while the modern West certainly asserts "material" power in the East, this self-assertion is overdetermined by a "spiritual" weakness of sorts: by an anxiety about the absence of absolute foundations and values that coincides with Western modernity itself. The book shows how the modern--here, German--West posits the Oriental "origin" as a fetish to fill the absent place of lacking foundations. Orientalism thus has the structure of (Freudian-Lacanian) disavowal. But a fetish always needs to be made mine. This particular fetish--the fetish of the Eastern "origin"--Is appropriated as Western by means of the displaced, quasi-secularized application of Christian typology. The Orient now prefigures its Occidental realization as Judaism once prefigured its Christian fulfillment. This structure of appropriation entails, however, that the Orient is always double, divided into an inappropriable, "bad" Orient and an appropriable, "good" Orient, just as in Christian typology prefigural Judaism was haunted by its irredeemably material, pagan double. This splitting of the Orient appears in the German tradition--but not just there--especially as the Semite-Aryan couple. The book traces variations on this theme through historicist texts of the nineteenth century, and then shows how high modernists like Buber, Kafka, Mann, and Freud place this historicist narrative in question. After a discussion of Orientalist dimensions in contemporary German culture, the book concludes with the outlines of a cultural historiography that would distance itself from the metaphysics of historicism, confronting instead its underlying anxieties"--(Provided by publisher.)

Content: Zusammenfassung: "This book demonstrates the inextricable entanglement of Orientalism and anti-Judaism in modern German letters. It shows how historicist narratives posit the Orient as fetish in lieu of absent origins, then appropriate this fetish by applying to the East-West relation the Christian supercessionist typology earlier developed to construe the Jewish-Christian relation"--(Provided by publisher.)

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Machine generated contents note:List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Orientalism as Typology, or How to Disavow the Modern Abyss 1 -- Part I. Historicist Orientalism: Transcendental Historiography from Johann Gottfried Herder to Arthur Schopenhauer -- 1. Ordering Chaos: The Orient in J. G. Herder's Teleological Historicism -- 2. Figuralizing the Oriental, Literalizing the Jew: From Letter to Spirit in Friedrich Schlegel's On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians -- 3. Goethe's Orientalizing Moment (I): "Notes and Treatises for the Better Understanding of the West-East Divan" -- 4. Goethe's Orientalizing Moment (II): The Poetry of the West-East Divan Excursus: Jussuph and the Question of Anti-Semitism in Goethe -- 5. Thresholds of History: India and the Limits of Europe in Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of History -- Excursus: The History of Panic-Angst und Notgeschrei -- 6. Taking Up Groundlessness, Fulfilling Fulfillment: Schopenhauer's Orientalist Metaphysics between Indians and Jews -- Part II. How Not to Appropriate Orientalist Typology: Some Modernist Responses to Historicism -- 7. Dialectical Development or Partial Construction? Martin Buber and Franz Kafka Excursus on a Brief Excursus-Concerning Babel -- 8. The Dreamwork of History: Orientalism and Originary Disfiguration in Freud's Moses and Monotheism Excursus: Edward Said and the Identity of the Different, or Freud in Palestine -- Conclusion: For an Abstract Historiography of the Nonexistent Present -- Notes -- Index.

Language: English

Subjects: Theology

Keywords: Deutschland ; Orientbild ; Orientalismus ; Judenbild ; Geistesgeschichte 1800-1930 ; Deutschland ; Orientalismus ; Orientbild ; Judenbild ; Geistesgeschichte 1800-1930 ; Deutschland ; Orientbild ; Judenbild ; Geistesgeschichte 1800-1930

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Author information: Librett, Jeffrey S.

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Format: 1 online resource (145 pages)

ISBN: 9780823279975 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Nancy, Jean-Luc. Portrait. New York : Fordham University Press, 2018 ISBN 9780823279944

Language: English

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URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823279975

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Format: xxvi, 206 p , 24 cm

ISBN: 0816626103 , 0816626111

Uniform Title: Sens du monde 〈engl.〉

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-201) and index

Language: English

Author information: Nancy, Jean-Luc 1940-2021

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Format: XXIII, 391 S. , Ill.

Edition: Orig. print.

ISBN: 0804736227 , 0804739315

Series Statement: Cultural memory in the present

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Deutschland ; Geistesleben ; Juden ; Geschichte 1750-1850

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Format: 1 online resource

Edition: First edition.

ISBN: 0-8232-8146-9 , 0-8232-7996-0 , 0-8232-7997-9

Series Statement: Lit Z

Content: This book examines the practice of portraits as a way in to grasping the paradoxes of subjectivity. To Nancy, the portrait is suspended between likeness and strangeness, identity and distance, representation and presentation, exactitude and forcefulness. It can identify an individual, but it can also express the dynamics by means of which its subject advances and withdraws. The book consists of two extended essays written a decade apart but in close conversation, in which Nancy considers the range of aspirations articulated by the portrait. Heavily illustrated, it includes a newly written preface bringing the two essays together and a substantial Introduction by Jeffrey Librett, which places Nancy’s work within the range of thinking of aesthetics and the subject, from religion, to aesthetics, to psychoanalysis. Though undergirded by a powerful grasp of the philosophical and psychoanalytic tradition that has rendered our sense of the subject so problematic, Nancy’s book is at heart a delightful, unpretentious reading of three dozen portraits, from ancient drinking mugs to recent experimental or parodic pieces in which the artistic representation of a sitter is made from their blood, germ cultures, or DNA. The contemporary world of ubiquitous photos, Nancy argues, in no way makes the portrait a thing of the past. On the contrary, the forms of appearing that mark the portrait continue to challenge how we see the bodies and representations that dominate our world.

Note: Translated from the French. , This edition previously issued in print: 2018. , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Preface to the English-Language Edition -- , Introduction. The Subject of the Portrait -- , The Autonomous Portrait -- , Resemblance -- , Recall -- , Look -- , L’altro ritratto -- , Character -- , The Eye -- , Visageity -- , Mimesis -- , Withdrawn Presence -- , Ipseity -- , Theophany -- , Revelation -- , Divine Abandonment -- , Dis-figuration -- , Eclipse -- , Infinite Detachment -- , Coda I -- , Coda II -- , Coda III -- , Notes -- , Figures , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8232-7994-4

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780823279975

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Format: 1 online resource (376 p.)

ISBN: 9780823262946

Content: 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.

Note: 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 , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780823262946

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823262946

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Format: 1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition: First edition.

ISBN: 0-8232-6640-0 , 0-8232-6295-2 , 0-8232-6294-4

Content: 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.

Note: Includes index. , 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 , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8232-6291-X

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-322-40080-6

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780823262946

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ISBN: 0-8047-3622-7

In: pages:241-257

In: The rhetoric of cultural dialogue / Jeffrey S. Librett, Stanford, Calif., 2000, S. 241 - 257, 0-8047-3622-7

In: 0-8047-3931-5

Language: German

Keywords: Wagner, Richard 1813-1883 Das Judentum in der Musik

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ISSN: 0075-8833

In: Lessing yearbook, Göttingen : Wallstein, 1969, [Vol.] 21. 1989. Detroit ; München (1990) S. 272 - 275, 0075-8833

In: volume:21

In: year:1990

In: pages:Librett in

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