Heine and critical theory / Willi Goetschel.
"Heinrich Heine's role in the formation of Critical Theory has been systematically overlooked in the course of the successful appropriation of his thought by Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and the legacy they left, in particular for Adorno, Benjamin and the Frankfurt School. This book examines th...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Heine's Jewish Difference and the Project of Critical Theory; Heine's Jewish Comedy; Heine and the Frankfurt School: Dialectic of a Constellation; Heine's Modernity; 1 Displacement, Relocation, and the Dialectic of a Constellation: Heine, Critical Theory, and the New York Intellectuals; Leo Löwenthal, Max Horkheimer, andHeine in the Bronx; Adorno and Benjamin; Adolph S. Oko; Hannah Arendt; The Heine Debates in Commentary; 2 Heine's Readers: Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud; Marx; Nietzsche; Freud.
- Heine's Legacy and its Continuing Significance3 Heine's Dissonant Aesthetics; Contrast, Dissonance, and Disenchantment; The Critical Function of Dissonance in Adorno; A Californian Perspective; Returning "Home": Heine the Wound; Heine's Dissonant Voices; 4 The Signifying Lizard: Language, Sign, and Play; Goethe and the Frankfurt School of Language; The Signifying Lizard; Monkeys Might Understand but Choose Not to Speak; Ticking Watches and the Beat of Drums; Displaced Philology and the Language of the Other; No Idea: The Nonconceptual.
- 5 Messiah in Golden Chains: Deferred Action and the Concept of HistoryHistorical Materialism; Constellation and Counterhistories; After History: The View from the Prompter's Box; The Terror of Deferred Action and the Problem of Representation: Heine on Delaroche's History Paintings; The Messiah in Golden Chains; Dream, Imagination, History: Going Forward Going Back; Nachträglichkeit's Aftereffects: Heine and Freud; Eulogy of a Dying God and Moses's Creation of a People; Temporality, the Paradox of Time, and Nonsimultaneity; "And Only Time Remains."
- 6 The Comedy of Body and Mind: Emancipation and the Power of the AffectsSpinoza's Return; Brain and Belly: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza; Seraphine; 7 Myths of Enlightenment: Heine's Secularization Narratives; Protestant Secularization:The City of Lucca; Secularization Theory as Counternarrative Heine's Intellectual History; 8 Another Abraham, Another Sarah: Heine's Frankfurt Shul in The Rabbi of Bacherach; Notes; Bibliography; Index.