The Rhetoric of Cultural Dialogue – Jews and Germans from Moses Mendelssohn to …

The Rhetoric of Cultural DialogueJews and Germans from Moses Mendelssohn to Richard Wagner and Beyond\nAuthor(s): Jeffrey S. Librett\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804739313, 978-0804739313\nSynopsis\nIn this groundbreaking work, the author effects the first extended rhetorical-philosophical reading of the historically problematic relationship between Jews and Germans, based on an analysis of texts from the Enlightenment through Modernism by Moses Mendelssohn, Friedrich and Dorothea Schlegel, Karl Marx, Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud. The theoretical underpinning of the work lies in the author's rereading, in terms of contemporary rhetorical theory, of the medieval tradition known as \""figural representation,\"" which defines the Jewish-Christian relation as that between the dead, prefigural letter and the living, fulfilled spirit.\n\n After arguing that the German Enligh.