Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789-1848

Off with Their Heads? { 15 bridge leading Jews from the periphery to full integration and participation in civic life. He draws ...

16 } Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany Fichte’s equally aggressive and characterological understanding of the essen- tial ...

Off with Their Heads? { 17 early version of, to use Salo Baron’s famous term, the “lachrymose” theory of Jewish history.^4 He at ...

18 } Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany Bendavid wrote his treatise in German, a language not accessible to the ma- jority ...

Off with Their Heads? { 19 Temple and failed attempts to regain their lost sovereignty, the Jews turned—as a last resort—to a mo ...

20 } Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany 1530 ) and by Christians like Martin Luther (Von den Juden und ihren Lügen [On the ...

Off with Their Heads? { 21 would take on a key function in the new medical discourse. Whereas the classi- cal doctor had striven ...

22 } Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany of diseases of the psyche (Seelenkrankheitslehre).^22 In 1786 Moritz recast tradi- ...

Off with Their Heads? { 23 A humble merchant by trade, he is honest by nature, yet he is driven to engage in smuggling by the ne ...

24 } Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany ity and a wider society to which they passionately wish to gain access. In Etwas z ...

Off with Their Heads? { 25 period in Jewish history that Bendavid diagnoses in his etiology of modern Jew- ish character has a c ...

26 } Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany indignation from the eye of the philanthropist. Sinful, the Pentateuch taught them ...

Off with Their Heads? { 27 the pious Jewish egotist seeks self-aggrandizement and pleasure through self- abnegation and altruism ...

28 } Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany programmatic 1783 essay in Ha-measef titled “The Uses of Engagement with Past Ages ...

Off with Their Heads? { 29 mobilizing a brand-new conceptual paradigm. Bendavid’s fidelity to Kantian thought sets him apart fro ...

30 } Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany Bendavid and Fichte by the more fundamental binary of Jew versus Mensch. The signi ...

Off with Their Heads? { 31 an island that is surrounded by the waters of the noumenal world, alluring but also deceptive and tre ...

32 } Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany the terms Willkür and Wille (will), the latter being essentially synonymous with p ...

Off with Their Heads? { 33 subject can be said to achieve autonomous freedom by submitting to (its own) norms—that is, through a ...

34 } Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany which particular sorts of contractual arrangements, including the Bürgerver- trag, ...