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Spector's book is required reading for all students of modernism and the German-Jewish contribution to this fraught moment in European history.

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Table of Contents

Preface: Historicizing German-Jewish Subjectivity
1. Forget Assimilation: Subjectivity and German-Jewish History
2. Modernism Without Jews: A Counter-Historical Argument
3. The Secularization Question: Germans, Jews, and the Historical Understanding of Modernity
4. Edith Stein's Passing Gestures: Intimate Histories, Empathic Portraits
5. Two Vultures: Freud Between "Jewish Science" and Humanism
6. Elsewhere in Austria: Jewish Writing between "Habsburg Myth" and "Central Europe Effect"
7. Max Brod's Homelands, Kafka's Patrimony
8. Kafka and Literary Modernism
9. The Law of the Letter: Kafka's Correspondence with Milena Jesenská
Index

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 25/09/2017
      ISBN13: 9780253029539, 978-0253029539
      ISBN10: 0253029538
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      Highly recommended.

      * Choice *

      Spector's book is required reading for all students of modernism and the German-Jewish contribution to this fraught moment in European history.

      * Reading Religion *

      Table of Contents

      Preface: Historicizing German-Jewish Subjectivity
      1. Forget Assimilation: Subjectivity and German-Jewish History
      2. Modernism Without Jews: A Counter-Historical Argument
      3. The Secularization Question: Germans, Jews, and the Historical Understanding of Modernity
      4. Edith Stein's Passing Gestures: Intimate Histories, Empathic Portraits
      5. Two Vultures: Freud Between "Jewish Science" and Humanism
      6. Elsewhere in Austria: Jewish Writing between "Habsburg Myth" and "Central Europe Effect"
      7. Max Brod's Homelands, Kafka's Patrimony
      8. Kafka and Literary Modernism
      9. The Law of the Letter: Kafka's Correspondence with Milena Jesenská
      Index

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