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Identity
or History? Marcus Herz and the End of the Enlightenment Martin L. Davies |
Identity or History? attempts to make sense of the end of the 18th century when Enlightenment tradition and Romantic thought coincided for a brief time. By drawing parallels between the life of Jewish philosopher and doctor Marcus Herz and Prussian politics and culture of the time, Davies illuminates an important period in German intellectual history. He provides an innovative examination of German-Jewish identity, the discrepancies between Enlightenment theory and practice, and 18th century philosophy and medicine. The book follows Herz's demise from historical record by describing him in relation to the cultural and social contexts of those who overshadowed him: Kant, Mendelssohn, and Schleiermacher and the different dimensions of historical time and cultural values they represent. Davies offers a critique of intellectual history which regards history as the province of "great minds" where cultural values mesh with social practice to form historical traditions. | 1.
Identity or History? (1): Reflections on the historiography of unrecognized
persons 2. "A Clever Jewish Student": Marcus Herz, Immanuel Kant, and the vocation of philosophy 3. "A Born Medical Practitioner": Marcus Herz and the vocation of medicine 4. Overtaken by the Future: Dilemmas of the rational intellect at the end of the Enlightenment 5. Identity or History? (2): Afterthoughts on identity and displacement in modern German-Jewish culture |
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| Kritik:
German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series $31.95s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2434-7 344 pages 1995 |
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