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Modernist Form and the Myth of Jewification (Hardcover)
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Modernist Form and the Myth of Jewification (Hardcover)
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Why were modernist works of art, literature, and music that were
neither by nor about Jews nevertheless interpreted as Jewish? In
this book, Neil Levi explores how the antisemitic fantasy of a
mobile, dangerous, contagious Jewish spirit unfolds in the
antimodernist polemics of Richard Wagner, Max Nordau, Wyndham
Lewis, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine, reaching its apotheosis in the
notorious 1937 Nazi exhibition "Degenerate Art." Levi then turns to
James Joyce, Theodor W. Adorno, and Samuel Beckett, offering
radical new interpretations of these modernist authors to show how
each presents his own poetics as a self-conscious departure from
the modern antisemitic imaginary.
Levi claims that, just as antisemites once feared their own
contamination by a mobile, polluting Jewish spirit, so too much of
postwar thought remains governed by the fear that it might be
contaminated by the spirit of antisemitism. Thus he argues for the
need to confront and work through our own fantasies and projections
not only about the figure of the Jew but also about that of the
antisemite.
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