Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789-1848

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Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1 Off with Their Heads? Lazarus Bendavid’s Vision

of Kantian Subjects at the End of Jewish History 14

2 Becoming Citizens of Hegel’s State, or the Politics

of Wissenschaft des Judentums in 1820 s Germany 44

3 Locating Themselves in History: Hegel in Key

Texts of the Verein 90

4 Marx’s “Real Jews” between Volk and Proletariat:

Productivizing Social Abjection and Grounding

Radical Social Critique 146

5 Patriotic Pantheism: Spinoza in Berthold

Auerbach’s Early Career 200

6 Moses Hess: Beyond the Politics of Self-Possession 241

Concluding Remarks 272

Abbreviations 275

Notes 277

Works Cited 351

Index 371

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