Goethe and Judaism : The Troubled Inheritance of Modern Literature
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0810131730
ISBN-13
9780810131736
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Imprint
Northwestern University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 21st, 2015
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
380 grams
Dimensions
22.60 x 15.20 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: generalLiterary studies: c 1500 to c 1800JudaismJudaism
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Examines the iconic German writer’s engagement with, and portrayal of, Judaism. Karin Schutjer’s premise is that Goethe’s conception of modernity is deeply entwined with his conception of Judaism. She argues that behind his very mixed representations of Jews and Judaism stand crucial tensions within his own thinking and a distinct anxiety of influence.
In Goethe and Judaism, Karin Schutjer examines the iconic German writer’s engagement with, and portrayal of, Judaism. Her premise is that Goethe’s conception of modernity—his apprehensions as well as his most affirmative vision concerning the trajectory of his age—is deeply entwined with his conception of Judaism.
Schutjer argues that behind his very mixed representations of Jews and Judaism stand crucial tensions within his own thinking and a distinct anxiety of influence. Goethe draws,for example, from the Jewish ban on idolatry for his own semiotics, from the narratives of nomadic wanderings in the Hebrew Bible for his own trope of the existential wanderer, from the history of Jewish exile for his own emergent conception of a GermanKulturnation. Schutjer thus uncovers the surprising debt to Judaism owed by one the most formative thinkers in German history.
Schutjer argues that behind his very mixed representations of Jews and Judaism stand crucial tensions within his own thinking and a distinct anxiety of influence. Goethe draws,for example, from the Jewish ban on idolatry for his own semiotics, from the narratives of nomadic wanderings in the Hebrew Bible for his own trope of the existential wanderer, from the history of Jewish exile for his own emergent conception of a GermanKulturnation. Schutjer thus uncovers the surprising debt to Judaism owed by one the most formative thinkers in German history.
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