Remembering the Jewish and German Questions

Remembering the Jewish and German Questions: Essays on Fairy Tales, Poetry, and Culture is a selection of Jack Zipes's insightful essays and presentations on fairy tales, Jewish studies, philosophy, drama, and the German public sphere.

Autorentext

Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, USA. He is a founding father of the academic discipline of Fairy Tale. His books include Grimm Legacies: The Magic Power of Fairy Tales (2014) and The Sorcerer's Apprentice: An Anthology of Magical Tales (2017).

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Towards an Epidemiology of the Grimms' Fairy Tales

Chapter 2. Traces of Hope: The Nonsynchronicity of Ernst Bloch

Chapter 3. Why Fantasy Matters Too Much: The Delusion and Hope of the Fantastic

Chapter 4. The Contemporary German Fascination for Things Jewish: Toward a Jewish Minor Culture

Chapter 5. George Tabori and the Jewish Question

Chapter 6. Inclusion as Exclusion: Framing Jewish and German Questions in the Public Sphere

Chapter 7. On the Necessity of Writing Poetry and Stories after Auschwitz: A Reassessment of Adorno's Cultural Critique

Bibliography

Index