Heine and critical theory / Willi Goetschel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goetschel, Willi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856.

Heine, Heinrich.

Authors, German--Political and social views.

Authors, German.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

This scholarly work examines the intersections of Heinrich Heine's literary contributions and the critical theories developed by the Frankfurt School. It explores themes of Jewish identity, humor, modernity, dissonance, and the role of Jewish difference in the evolution of Critical Theory. The book also delves into Heine's influence on prominent thinkers such as Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and members of the Frankfurt School, including Adorno and Benjamin. Through a detailed analysis, it highlights the reciprocal relationship between Heine's writings and the critical frameworks of the Frankfurt School, shedding light on their shared concerns with displacement, history, language, and aesthetics. Aimed at scholars and students of philosophy, Jewish studies, literature, and critical theory, this work seeks to bridge gaps in disciplinary scholarship and provide a nuanced understanding of Heine's enduring legacy. Generated by AI.

Contents:

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Contents

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Heine's Jewish Difference and the Project of Critical Theory

Heine's Jewish Comedy

Heine and the Frankfurt School: Dialectic of a Constellation

Heine's Modernity

1 Displacement, Relocation, and the Dialectic of a Constellation: Heine, Critical Theory, and the New York Intellectuals

Leo Löwenthal, Max Horkheimer, andHeine in the Bronx

Adorno and Benjamin

Adolph S. Oko

Hannah Arendt

The Heine Debates in Commentary

2 Heine's Readers: Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud

Marx

Nietzsche

Freud

Heine's Legacy and its Continuing Significance

3 Heine's Dissonant Aesthetics

Contrast, Dissonance, and Disenchantment

The Critical Function of Dissonance in Adorno

A Californian Perspective

Returning "Home": Heine the Wound

Heine's Dissonant Voices

4 The Signifying Lizard: Language, Sign, and Play

Goethe and the Frankfurt School of Language

The Signifying Lizard

Monkeys Might Understand but Choose Not to Speak

Ticking Watches and the Beat of Drums

Displaced Philology and the Language of the Other

No Idea: The Nonconceptual

5 Messiah in Golden Chains: Deferred Action and the Concept of History

Historical Materialism

Constellation and Counterhistories

After History: The View from the Prompter's Box

The Terror of Deferred Action and the Problem of Representation: Heine on Delaroche's History Paintings

The Messiah in Golden Chains

Dream, Imagination, History: Going Forward Going Back

Nachträglichkeit's Aftereffects: Heine and Freud

Eulogy of a Dying God and Moses's Creation of a People

Temporality, the Paradox of Time, and Nonsimultaneity

"And Only Time Remains"

6 The Comedy of Body and Mind: Emancipation and the Power of the Affects.

Spinoza's Return

Brain and Belly: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

Seraphine

7 Myths of Enlightenment: Heine's Secularization Narratives

Protestant Secularization:The City of Lucca

Secularization Theory as Counternarrative Heine's Intellectual History

8 Another Abraham, Another Sarah: Heine's Frankfurt Shul in The Rabbi of Bacherach

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

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ISBN:

1-350-08726-2

OCLC:

1078636633