The elusiveness of tolerance the "Jewish question" from Lessing to the Napoleonic Wars
Analyzing literary works - from Lessing's "Nathan der Weise" (1779) to Sessa's "Unser Verkehr" (1812/15) - and political and philosophical tracts, shows the transition from an enlightened, emancipatory literature to an antisemitic literature in the early 19th century. T...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Press
2020, [2020]©1997
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| Edition: | [Open access ebook edition] |
| Series: | UNC studies in the Germanic languages and literatures
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Analyzing literary works - from Lessing's "Nathan der Weise" (1779) to Sessa's "Unser Verkehr" (1812/15) - and political and philosophical tracts, shows the transition from an enlightened, emancipatory literature to an antisemitic literature in the early 19th century. The ideology of tolerance failed because of its internal contradictions |
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| Item Description: | Reprint. Originally published in 1997 |
| Physical Description: | xi, 189 pages |
| ISBN: | 9781469614649 |