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,
Dagmar Herzog demonstrates how centrally 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 "politics
of the personal," especially over sex and marriage, determined
"larger" political matters, among them the relationship between
church and state and the terms on which Jews were granted civic
rights.
Herzog documents the rise of a politically sophisticated
conservative Catholicism, 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,
especially liberals' unwillingness to grant equality to those
deemed "different" from the Christian male norm. Finally, the
author analyzes the difficulties encountered by philosemitic and
feminist radicals in reconceptualizing both classical liberalism
and Christianity in order to make room for the claims of Jews and
women.
Originally published in 1996.
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