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Article: German Idealism and the Jew. The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses.(Book Review)
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- Journal of European Studies
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- December 1, 2004
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German Idealism and the Jew. The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses. By Michael Mack. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. viii + 229. 24.50 [pounds sterling].
Kant's understanding of the Jewish religion and the Jewish nation (significantly, Mack claims, the two are inextricably connected) as heteronomous, because oriented towards the material world, led in his thinking to the exclusion of Jewish people from the collective of autonomous, rational and ethical individuals. Hegel then defined this collective as the body politic, implying an exclusion of Jews from the community of citizens. In various ways, Feuerbach ...