In the 1990s, Vienna's Jews and queers abandoned their clandestine
existence and emerged into the city's public sphere in
unprecedented numbers. "Symptoms of Modernity "traces this
development in the context of Central European history.
Jews and homosexuals are signposts of an exclusionary process of
nation-building. Cast in their modern roles in the late nineteenth
century, they functioned as Others, allowing a national community
to imagine itself as a site of ethnic and sexual purity. In Matti
Bunzl's incisive historical and cultural analysis, the Holocaust
appears as the catastrophic culmination of this violent project, an
attempt to eradicate modernity's abject by-products from the body
politic. As "Symptoms of Modernity "shows, though World War II
brought an end to the genocidal persecution, the nation's
exclusionary logic persisted, accounting for the ongoing
marginalization of Jews and homosexuals.
Not until the 1970s did individual Jews and queers begin to
challenge the hegemonic subordination--a resistance that, by the
1990s, was joined by the state's attempts to ensure and affirm the
continued presence of Jews and queers. "Symptoms of Modernity
"gives an account of this radical cultural reversal, linking it to
geopolitical transformations and to the supersession of the
European nation-state by a postmodern polity.
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