Mixed Feelings: Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture

by Katja Garloff

Book Overview

Since the late eighteenth century, writers and thinkers have used the idea of love--often unrequited or impossible love--to comment on the changing cultural, social, and political position of Jews in the German-speaking countries. In Mixed Feelings, Katja Garloff asks what it means for literature (and philosophy) to use love between individuals as a metaphor for group relations. This question is of renewed interest today, when theorists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501704974
• ISBN13: 9781501704970
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher