2. Romantic Love and the Denial of Difference Friedrich Schlegel and Dorothea Veit

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I 1800: Romantic Love and the Beginnings of Jewish Emancipation
6. 1. Interfaith Love and the Pursuit of Emancipation Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 19
7. 2. Romantic Love and the Denial of Difference Friedrich Schlegel and Dorothea Veit 45
8. 3. Figures of Love in Later Romantic Antisemitism Achim von Arnim 73
9. Part II 1900: The Crisis of Jewish Emancipation and Assimilation
10. 4. Refiguring the Language of Race Ludwig Jacobowski, Max Nordau, Georg Hermann 93
11. 5. Eros and Thanatos in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Sigmund Freud, Otto Weininger, Arthur Schnitzler 126
12. 6. Revelatory Love, or the Dynamics of Dissimilation Franz Rosenzweig and Else Lasker-Schüler 145
13. Conclusion: Toward the Present and the Future Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, Barbara Honigmann 171
14. Bibliography 189
15. Index 205