Poet – Trickster – Marrano: Else Lasker-Schüler and the Letter that Saves

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1: Marrano Judaism
5. The Wandering Jew: The Anarchic Challenge of a Marrano Legend 57
6. Out of Place (Of Talmudic Marranos) 75
7. Reading the Other? Levinas and the Hidden Tradition of Talmud 97
8. A Swedish Marrano? The Ecumenical Heresies of Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis 117
9. Part 2: Marrano Philosophy
10. Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise: Jewish Philosophy in an Anti-Jewish Guise? 133
11. Thinking Through Identity: The Marranic Epistemology of Franz Rosenzweig 155
12. Marranism as Wittgenstein’s Religious Point of View 181
13. Part 3: Marrano Psychoanalysis
14. Heresy and Marranism: The Case of Freud 205
15. On the Marrano Psychotheology of Gender: Freud, Schreber, Frank 219
16. Derrida’s Elsewhere: The Cryptic Life of the Marrano Self 231
17. Part 4: Marrano Literature
18. The Emancipation of Yitskhok Bashevis: The Sufferings of a Polygamous Werther in The Man of Dreams 265
19. Classicism as a Marranic Disguise: Hermann Broch’s The Death of Virgil and the Price of Self-Preservation 281
20. Poet – Trickster – Marrano: Else Lasker-Schüler and the Letter that Saves 307
21. Part 5: Marrano Religion(s)
22. Solovyov: A Philosophical Marrano? Tsimtsum in Lectures on Divine Humanity 321
23. Metaphysics of Esther: Edith Stein between Aquinas and Scotus 341
24. Notes on Contributors 365
25. Index 369