The Rhetoric of Cultural Dialogue: Jews and Germans from Moses Mendelssohn to Richard Wagner and Beyond

By Jeffrey Librett

Book Overview

In this groundbreaking work, the author effects the first extended rhetorical-philosophical reading of the historically problematic relationship between Jews and Germans, based on an analysis of texts from the Enlightenment through Modernism by Moses Mendelssohn, Friedrich and Dorothea Schlegel, Karl Marx, Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804739315
• ISBN13: 9780804739313
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"