The Anti-Journalist Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-De-Siècle Europe - Studies in German-Jewish Cultural History and Literature
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780226754574 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Imprint: | The University of Chicago Press |
Pub date: | 04 Dec 2020 |
DEWEY: | 838.91209 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 256 |
Weight: | 416g |
Height: | 152mm |
Width: | 229mm |
Spine width: | 19mm |