German Question/Jewish Question: Revolutionary Antisemitism in Germany from Kant to Wagne

416 Pages·1990·22.311 MB·English

by  Paul Rose

GERMAN QUESTION/
JEWISH QUESTION
REVOLUTIONARY
ANTISEMITISM
FROM KANT TO WAGNER

GERMAN QUESTION/
JEWISH QUESTION
R E V O L U T I O N A RY
A N T I S E M I T I SM
FROM K A NT TO W A G N ER
PAUL LAWRENCE ROSE
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
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Rose, Paul Lawrence.
[Revolutionary antisemitism in Germany from Kant to Wagner]
German question/Jewish question: revolutionary antisemitism
from Kant to Wagner / Paul Lawrence Rose.
p. cm.
Originally published: Revolutionary antisemitism in Germany from
Kant to Wagner. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, © 1990.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-691-00890-6
1. Antisemitism—Germany—History—19th century. 2. Philosophy,
German—19th century. 3. Germany—Intellectual life—19th century.
4. Germany—Ethnic relations. I. Title.
[DS146.G4R64 1993]
305.892'4043'o9034—dc20 92-27142
Originally published as Revolutionary Antisemitism in Germany
from Kant to Wagner
First Princeton Paperback printing, with a new title and a
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C O N T E N TS
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: The German Revolution and
Antisemitism xv
PART ONE GENEALOGY AND MYTHOLOGY OF
REVOLUTIONARY ANTISEMITISM
Chapter ι The Genealogy of Modern Antisemitism:
National Character, Race, and Revolution 3
Chapter 2 Ahasverus and the Destruction of
Judaism 23
Chapter 3 "Against Humanity": Moloch, Mammon,
and the Secularization of the Blood Libel 44
Chapter 4 Myth and Reality in Antisemitic
Mentalities κ ι
PARTTWO ARCHAEOLOGY OF
REVOLUTIONARY ANTISEMITISM
Chapter 5 The Jewish Question: Conceptions and
Misconceptions 61
Chapter 6 The German Statists and the Jewish
Question, 1781-1812: Dohm, Humboldt,
and Hardenberg 70
Chapter 7 The German Moralists and the Jewish
Question: Kant, Herder, and Hegel 91
Chapter 8 The German Nationalists and the Jewish
Question: Fichte and the Birth of
Revolutionary Antisemitism 117
VlIl CONTENTS
PART THREE YOUNG GERMANY: LITERARY
REVOLUTIONISM AND THEJEWISH
QUESTION
Chapter 9 Revolutionary Judaism and the German
Revolution: Borne and Heine 135
Chapter 10 "Young Germany—Young Palestine":
The Junges Deutschland Controversy of
1835 171
Chapter 11 Karl Gutzkow's "New Ahasverus":
Lovelessness, Egoism, and the
Redemption of the Flesh 185
Chapter 12 Heinrich Laube: Revolutionary German
Art and Jewish Mammonism 211
Chapter 13 Berthold Auerbach: Reconciling
Jewishness and Germanness 224
PART FOUR YOUNG HEGELIAN ISM: THE
PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIAL
REVOLUTIONISTS ON THEJEWISH
QUESTION
Chapter 14 Judaism as Molochism: The Philosophical
and Socialist Revolutionary Critiques of
Judaism, 1836-1844 251
Chapter 15 Revolution to Race I: Bruno Bauer and
the Critical Revolution 263
Chapter 16 Revolution to Race II: Wilhelm Marr and
the Antisemitic Revolution 279
Chapter 17 Karl Marx: Judaism as Moral Myth and
Social Reality 296
Chapter 18 Beyond Ahasverus and Moloch: Moses
Hess's Subversion of the Revolutionary
Myths of Judaism 306
CONTENTS IX
PART FIVE THE REVOLUTION AND THE RACE
Chapter ig The Chosen Race and the Revolution:
Constantin Frantz's Revolutionary
Christian Federalism 341
Chapter a ο Richard Wagner: Prophet of
Revolutionary Antisemitism 358
Afterword to the
1992 Edition 381
Index 389