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The Jewess Pallas Athena - This Too a Theory of Modernity (Paperback)
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"The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is
a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But
it poses questions: How to reconstruct a culture that has been
destroyed? How to conceive of history after the catastrophes of the
twentieth century? This book begins in the mid-eighteenth century
with the first Jewish women to raise their voices in German. It
ends two hundred years later, with another group of Jewish women
looking back at a country from which they had been expelled and to
which they would never want to return. Among the many prominent
female intellectuals and literary figures Barbara Hahn discusses
are Hannah Arendt, Gertrud Kantorowicz, Rosa Luxemburg, Else
Lasker-Schuler, Margarete Susman, and Rahel Levin Varnhagen. In
examining their writing, she reflects upon the question of how
German culture was constructed--with its inherent patterns of
exclusion. This is a book about hope and despair, possibilities and
preventions. We see attempts at dialogue between Christians and
Jews, men and women, "Germans" and "Jews," attempts initiated by
these women that, for the most part, remained unanswered. Finally,
the book reconstructs the changing notions of the "Jewess," a key
word in modern German history with its connotations of "salons,"
"beauty," and "esprit." And yet a word that is also disastrous, in
which there culminated everything the dominant culture condemned as
dangerous.
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