The Anti-Journalist : Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe Paperback / softback
by Paul Reitter
Part of the Studies in German-Jewish Cultural History and Literature, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, series
Paperback / softback
Description
In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage.
Kraus’s spectacularly hostile critiques often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists, which brought him a reputation as the quintessential self-hating Jew.
The Anti-Journalist overturns this view with unprecedented force and sophistication, showing how Kraus’s criticisms form the center of a radical model of German-Jewish self-fashioning, and how that model developed in concert with Kraus’s modernist journalistic style. Paul Reitter’s study of Kraus’s writings situates them in the context of fin-de-siècle German-Jewish intellectual society.
He argues that rather than stemming from anti-Semitism, Kraus’s attacks constituted an innovative critique of mainstream German-Jewish strategies for assimilation.
Marshalling three of the most daring German-Jewish authors—Kafka, Scholem, and Benjamin—Reitter explains their admiration for Kraus’s project and demonstrates his influence on their own notions of cultural authenticity.
The Anti-Journalist is at once a new interpretation of a fascinating modernist oeuvre and a heady exploration of an important stage in the history of German-Jewish thinking about identity.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:09/11/2020
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- ISBN:9780226754574
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:09/11/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226754574
