Intimacy and Exclusion

Religious Politics in Pre-revolutionary Baden

Buch | Softcover

266 Seiten

2007
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4128-0702-9 (ISBN)

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In this pathbreaking work, Dagmar Herzog situates the birth of German liberalism in the religious conflicts of the nineteenth century. During the years leading up to the revolutions of 1848, liberal and conservative Germans engaged in a contest over the terms of the Enlightenment legacy and the meaning of Christianity--a contest that grew most intense in the Grand Duchy of Baden, where liberalism first became an influential political movement. Bringing insights drawn from Jewish and women's studies into German history, Herzog demonstrates how profoundly Christianity's problematic relationships to Judaism and to sexuality shaped liberal, conservative, and radical thought in the pre-revolutionary years. In particular, she reveals how often conflicts over the private sphere and the "politics of the personal" determined larger political matters.Herzog documents the unexpected rise of a politically sophisticated religious right led by conservative Catholics, and explores liberals' ensuing eagerness to advance a humanist version of Christianity. Yet she also examines the limitations at the heart of the liberal project, as well as the difficulties encountered by philo-Semitic and feminist radicals as they strove to reconceptualize both classical liberalism and Christianity in order to make room for the claims of Jews and women. The book challenges fundamental assumptions about processes of secularization and religious renewal and about Jewish-Christian relations in German history.

Dagmar Herzog is professor of history and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She teaches courses on European history, the history of the Holocaust, and the histories of religion and sexuality. She is also the author of Sex After Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (2005), and the editor of Sexuality and German Fascism (2004) and Lessons and Legacies VII: The Holocaust in International Perspective (2006), as well as co-editor of Sexuality in Austria, a special issue of Contemporary Austrian Studies (Transaction 2007).

INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, MAP OF BADEN IN THE 18405, Introduction, CHAPTER l Bodies and Souls, CHAPTER 2 Jewish Emancipation and Jewish Difference, CHAPTER 3 (Wo )Men's Emancipation and Women's Difference, CHAPTER 4 Problematics of Philosemitism, CHAPTER 5 The Feminist Conundrum, Conclusion, ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.12.2007
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4128-0702-6 / 1412807026
ISBN-13	978-1-4128-0702-9 / 9781412807029
Zustand	Neuware