The ordeal of civility : Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish struggle with modernity / by John Murray Cuddihy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cuddihy, John Murray.

Contributor:

Torre, Vincent.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude.

Jews--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Europe--Civilization.

Europe.

Civilization.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 272 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, [1974]

Contents:

Part I. Sigmund Freud. The matrix of Freud's theory: the Jewish emancipation problematic; The matrix of the method; "Passing" into the West: the passage from home; The primal scene; The guilt of shame; The ancient Judenfrage; Sexuality and Christianity: the refining process; Rooting out roundaboutness; The temptation scene; Freud's Jewishness; The locus of Freud's originality; Excursus: modernization and the emergence of social appearance; Reich and later variations

Part II. Karl Marx and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Father and son: Marx versus Marx; Censorship: persecution and the art of writing; The Marxian Urszene: property and propriety; Marx and the euphemists; Claude Lévi-Strauss: the rude, the crude, the nude, and The Origin of Table Manners

Part III. The Demeaned Jewish Intellectuals: Ideologists of Delayed Modernization. Jews and Irish: latecomes to modernity; Secular Jewish intellectuals as a modernizing elite: Jewish emancipation and the new nations compared

Part IV. Children of the Founding Fathers of Diaspora Intellectuality: The Contemporary Scene. A tale of two Hoffmans: The decorum decision and the bill of rites' Jews. Blacks, and the Cold War at the top: Malamud's The Tenants and the status-politics of subcultures

Part V. Conclusion. Modernity, Jewry, Christianity.

Notes:

"Designed by Vincent Torre."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-263) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1975".

ISBN:

0465052932 :

OCLC:

1119365