Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-revolutionary Baden

by Dagmar Herzog (Editor)

Overview

In this pathbreaking work, Dagmar Herzog situates the birth of German liberalism in the religious confl icts of the nineteenth century. During the years leading up to the revolutions of 1848, liberal and conservative Germans engaged in a contest over the terms of the Enlightenment legacy and the meaning of Christianity-a contest that grew most intense in the Grand Duchy of Baden, where liberalism fi rst became an infl uential political movement. Bringing insights drawn from Jewish and women's studies into German history, Herzog demonstrates how profoundly Christianity's problematic relationships to Judaism and to sexuality shaped liberal, conservative, and radical thought in the pre-revolutionary years.In particular, she reveals how often confl icts over the private sphere and the"politics of the personal" determined larger political matters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351511681
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Dagmar Herzog

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, MAP OF BADEN IN THE 18405, Introduction, CHAPTER l Bodies and Souls, CHAPTER 2 Jewish Emancipation and Jewish Difference, CHAPTER 3 (Wo )Men's Emancipation and Women's Difference, CHAPTER 4 Problematics of Philosemitism, CHAPTER 5 The Feminist Conundrum, Conclusion, ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX

Editorial Reviews

-A brilliant, highly original and sophisticated analysis.... This is a major contribution to the histories of German men and women, Christian and Jewish.-

- Marion A. Kaplan, New York University

-Herzog's accomplishment challenges all historians to reexamine political history in similarly exciting ways.-

- Bonnie G. Smith, Rutgers University

-An impressive, pioneering, and broadly relevant work-

- Jonathan Sperber, University of Missouri

"A brilliant, highly original and sophisticated analysis.... This is a major contribution to the histories of German men and women, Christian and Jewish."

- Marion A. Kaplan, New York University

"Herzog's accomplishment challenges all historians to reexamine political history in similarly exciting ways."

- Bonnie G. Smith, Rutgers University

"An impressive, pioneering, and broadly relevant work"

- Jonathan Sperber, University of Missouri

"A brilliant, highly original and sophisticated analysis.... This is a major contribution to the histories of German men and women, Christian and Jewish."

- Marion A. Kaplan, New York University

"Herzog's accomplishment challenges all historians to reexamine political history in similarly exciting ways."

- Bonnie G. Smith, Rutgers University

"An impressive, pioneering, and broadly relevant work"

- Jonathan Sperber, University of Missouri

"A brilliant, highly original and sophisticated analysis.... This is a major contribution to the histories of German men and women, Christian and Jewish."

- Marion A. Kaplan, New York University

"Herzog's accomplishment challenges all historians to reexamine political history in similarly exciting ways."

- Bonnie G. Smith, Rutgers University

"An impressive, pioneering, and broadly relevant work"

- Jonathan Sperber, University of Missouri

Dagmar Herzog has written a fascinating first book that provides an excellent example of successful use by a historian of methods of textual analysis developed by literary scholars.

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