Anti-Journalist Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe

Name: Anti-Journalist Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe
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ISBN: 9780226709703

ISBN-10: 0226709701

ISBN-13: 9780226709703

Edition: 2008

Authors: Paul Reitter

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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-Journalistoverturns 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…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Paul Reitteris associate professor of German at Ohio State University.



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


A Note on Editions


A Note on Translations


Introduction: All That Is Solid Melts into Ink



German Jews and the Writing of Modern Life



Karl Kraus and the Jewish Self-Hatred Question



Mirror-Man



Messianic Journalism? Benjamin and Scholem Read Die Fackel


Conclusion: The Afterlife of Anti-Journalism


Notes


Bibliography


Index