German Idealism and the Jew

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Political, Philosophical, Theological, Sociological, and Literary Critical Ramifications of Anti-Semitism
Part One: Narratives
1 Positing Immutability in Religion: Kant
2 The Metaphysics of Eating: Jewish Dietary Laws and Hegel's Social Theory
3 Transforming the Body into the Body Politic: Wagner and the Trajectory of German Idealism
Part Two: Counternarratives
4 Moses Mendelssohn's Other Enlightenment and German Jewish Counterhistories in the Work of Heinrich Heine and Abraham Geiger
5 Political Anti-Semitism and Its German Jewish Responses at the End of the Nineteenth Century: Heinrich Graetz and Otto Weininger
6 Between Mendelssohn and Kant: Hermann Cohen's Dual Account of Reason
7 Franz Rosenzweig, or The Body's Independence from the Body Politic
8 The Politics of Blood: Rosenzweig and Hegel
9 Freud's Other Enlightenment: Turning the Tables on Kant
10 Walter Benjamin's Transcendental Messianism, or The Immanent Transformation of the Profane
Conclusion: Elias Canetti, Franz Baermann Steiner, and Weimar's Aftermath
Notes
Index