Introduction: the political, philosophical, theological, sociological, and literary critical ramifications of anti-semitism
Positing immutability in religion: Kant
The metaphysics of eating: Jewish dietary laws and Hegel's social theory
Transforming the body into the body politic: Wagner and the trajectory of German idealism
Moses Mendelssohn's other enlightenment and German Jewish counterhistories in the work of Heinrich Heine and Abraham Geiger
Political anti-semitism and its German Jewish responses at the end of the nineteenth century: Heinrich Graetz and Otto Weininger
Between Mendelssohn and Kant: Hermann Cohen's dual account of reason
Franz Rosenzweig, or the body's independence from the body politic
The politics of blood: Rosenzweig and Hegel
Freud's other enlightenment: turning the tables on Kant
Walter Benjamin's transcendental messianism, or the immanent transformation of the profane
Conclusion: Elias Canetti, Franz Baermann Steiner, and Weimar's aftermath.
