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What is Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew about?

"This book demonstrates the inextricable entanglement of Orientalism and anti-Judaism in modern German letters. It shows how historicist narratives posit the Orient as fetish in lieu of absent origins, then appropriate this fetish by applying to the East-West relation the Christian supercessionist typology earlier developed to construe the Jewish-Christian relation"--

Author

Jeffrey S. Librett

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823262953

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Philosophy

Updated

2026-03-25