Freud, Jews and Other Germans: Masters and Victims in Modernist Culture

326 Pages·1978·18.841 MB·English

by  Peter Gay

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BOOKS BY PETER GAY
Art and Act: On Causes in History—Manet, Gropius, Mondrian
(i 6
97
)
Style in History (1974)
Modern Europe (1973), with R. K. Webb
The Bridge of Criticism: Dialogues on the Enlightenment 1970)
(
The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, volume The Science
2,
of Freedom (1969)
Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (1968)
A
Loss of Mastery: Puritan Historians in Colonial America (1966)
The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, volume The Rise of
1,
Modern Paganism (1966)
The Party of Humanity: Essays in the French Enlightenment (1964)
Voltaire’s Politics: The Poet as Realist (1959)
The Dilemma of Democratic Socialism: Eduard Bernstein’s
Challenge to Marx (1952)
Translations with Introductions
Voltaire: Candide (1963)
Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary, 2 volumes (1962)
Ernst Cassirer: The Question of Jean Jacques Rousseau (1954)
Anthologies and Collective Works
The Enlightenment: A Comprehensive Anthology
(1973)
Eighteenth Century Studies Presented to Arthur M. Wilson (1972)
The Columbia History of the World (1972), with John A. Garraty
Historians at Work, 4 volumes (1972, 1975), with
Gerald Cavanaugh and Victor G. Wexler
J.
Deism: An Anthology
(1968)
John Locke on Education
1964)
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AND
FREUD, JEWS
OTHER GERMANS
Masters and Victims
Modernist Culture
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GAY
PETER
New
York
Oxford University Press
1978
©
Copyright 1978 by Peter Gay
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Gay, Peter, 1923-
Freud, Jews, and other Germans.
Includes index.
1. Germany—Intellectual life—Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Jews in
Germany—Intellectual life—Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Germany—
Civilization—Jewish influences—Addresses, essays, lectures. 4. Freud,
Sigmund, 1856-1939—Addresses, essays, lectures. 5. Brahms, Jo-
hannes, 1833-1897—Addresses, essays, lectures. 6. Hanslick, Eduard,
1825-1904—Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Title.
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Printed in the United States of America
The following essays are reprinted by the kind permission of their origi-
nal publishers:
“Sigmund Freud: A German and His Discontents/’ originally pub-
lished as the Introduction to Gerggasse 19 by Edmund Engleman;
Basic Books, 1976.
“Encounter with Modernism: German Jews in Wilhelminian Cul-
ture,” originally part of a symposium volume edited by Werner E.
Mosse in collaboration with Arnold Paucker: Juden im Wilhelmini-
schen Deutschland i 8go-igiq, Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher
Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts C. B. Mohr (Paul
33, J.
Siebeck), Tubingen 1976.
“The Berlin-Jewish Spirit: A Dogma in Search of Some Doubts,” origi-
nally published by the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, as Leo Baeck
Memorial Lecture No.
15.
“Hermann Levi: A Study in Service and Self-Hatred,” originally pub-
lished under the title of “Hermann Levi and the Cult of Wagner” by
the Times Literary Supplement, London.
“Aimez-vous Brahms? On Polarities in Modernism,” originally pub-
lished under the title of “Aimez-vous Brahms? Reflections on Modern-
ism” in Salmagundi # 36, Winter 1977.
“For Beckmesser: Eduard Hanslick, Victim and Prophet,” originally
published in From Parnassus: Essays in Honor of Jacques Barzun,
edited by Doris B. Weiner and William R. Keylor; Harper & Row,
Publishers, Inc., 1976.