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Figures of Love in Romantic Antisemitism: Achim von Arnim
Ist Teil von
The German quarterly, 2007-09, Vol.80 (4), p.427-448
Ort / Verlag
Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
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Wiley Blackwell Single Titles
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This article offers a new analysis of the form and function of Achim von Arnim's antisemitism. Often seen as an early proponent of racial antisemitism, Arnim in fact vacillates between fascination with and rejection of Jews and Judaism. I show how his ambivalence proliferates around the motif of inter-religious love in texts such as "Über die Kennzeichen des Judenthums," "Die Versöhnung in der Sommerfrische," and "Die Majorats-Herren". Drawing on psychoanalytically inflected theories of ideology by Slavoj Žižek and Homi Bhabha, I suggest that ambivalence may render antisemitic ideology all the more effective rather than temper it. In both his speeches and his literary texts, Arnim's dramatization of Jewish-Gentile sex and love tends to disavow the tensions inherent in his visions of social harmony.