Description: Further DetailsTitle: Orientalism and the Figure of the JewCondition: NewAuthor: Jeffrey S. LibrettFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 0823262928EAN: 9780823262922ISBN: 9780823262922Publisher: Fordham University PressGenre: HistoryTopic: Literary Criticism, Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Date: 11/03/2014Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew
Title: Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew
ISBN-10: 0823262928
EAN: 9780823262922
ISBN: 9780823262922
Release Date: 11/03/2014
Release Year: 2014
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew
Number of Pages: 376 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Topic: Ethnic Studies / General, Subjects & Themes / Religion, European / German, Europe / Germany, History & Surveys / Modern, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 1.5 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 18.4 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Jeffrey S. Librett
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
