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.
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