Jews and Other Germans is the first social and cultural history to probe the parameters of Jewish integration in the half century between the founding of the German Empire in 1871 and the early Weimar Republic. Questioning received wisdom about German-Jewish assimilation and the pervasiveness of anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany, van Rahden's prize-winning book restores some of the complexity and openness of relations between Protestants, Catholics, and Jews before World War I. Closely analyzing the political, social, and cultural life in a major German city, van Rahden shows that Jews...
Jews and Other Germans is the first social and cultural history to probe the parameters of Jewish integration in the half century between the f...
Heinrich Meier s work on Carl Schmitt has dramatically reoriented the international debate about Schmitt and his significance for twentieth-century political thought. In "The Lesson of Carl Schmitt," Meier identifies the core of Schmitt s thought as political theology that is, political theorizing that claims to have its ultimate ground in the revelation of a mysterious or suprarational God. This radical, but half-hidden, theological foundation underlies the whole of Schmitt s often difficult and complex oeuvre, rich in historical turns and political convolutions, intentional deceptions...
Heinrich Meier s work on Carl Schmitt has dramatically reoriented the international debate about Schmitt and his significance for twentieth-century...
