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German Idealism and the Jews: The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses, by Michael Mack
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Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 229 pp. $35.00.
Mack's book attempts to do two things: first, cast a spotlight on the antisemitism of German idealist philosophy, illustrating how pseudo-theologies and pseudo-sciences drove discussions of Jewish otherness from Kant onwards. Second, Mack explains the counter-narratives created by Mendelssohn, Heine, Geiger, Graetz, Cohen, and Rosenzweig which attempted to subvert the false presentations foisted upon Jews and Judaism. Mack is hardly the first to point out antisemitic elements in German philosophy, but he succeeds in showing the process by which this thread was spun out more thoroughly than his predecessors. …
