2. The Dialectic of Enlightenment Revisited

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface and Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents IX
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. Part I History, Memory and Genocide
6. 2. The Dialectic of Enlightenment Revisited 7
7. 3. Why the Germans? Why the Jews? The Perennial Holocaust Question 33
8. 4. Lessons of the Holocaust: A Critical Examination 50
9. 5. Empathy, Autobiography and the Tasks and Tensions of the Historian 67
10. Part II Culture and Complex Identities
11. 6. The Weimar Kaleidoscope – And, Incidentally, Frankfurt’s Not Minor Place In It 83
12. 7. The Avant-Garde and the Jews 103
13. 8. Vienna: Harbinger of Creativity and Catastrophe 124
14. Part III Politics
15. 9. Between the Particular and the Universal: Rescuing the Particular from the Particularists and the Universal from the Universalists 141
16. 10. Zionism and Europe 163
17. 11. Gershom Scholem and the Left 178
18. Part IV Scholarly Dilemmas and Personal Confrontations
19. 12. Between New York and Jerusalem: Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt 199
20. 13. An Unwritten Letter from Victor Klemperer to Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem 209
21. 14. Moshe Idel and the Critique of German Jewry 224
22. 15. On Grading Jewishness: Pierre Birnbaum’s Geography of Hope 233
23. 16. The Memory Man: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Fallen Jew 238
24. 17. Of Memory, History – and Eggplants: The Odyssey of Saul Friedländer 246
25. 18. The Modern Jewish Medici: Salman Schocken between Merchandise and Culture 255
26. 19. Hans Jonas and his Troubled Century 259
27. 20. Islamic Jihad, Zionism, and Espionage in the Great War 263
28. Copyright Acknowledgements 273
29. Index 274
30. About the Author 281