Contents
Introduction
Part I: Sigmund Freud
The Matrix of Freud’s Theory: The Jewish Emancipation Problematic
The Matrix of the Method
“Passing” into the West: The Passage from Home
The Primal Scene
The Guilt of Shame
The Ancient
Judenfrage
Sexuality and Christianity: The Refining Process
Rooting Out Roundaboutness
The Temptation Scene
Freud’s Jewishness
The Locus of Freud’s Originality
Excursus: Modernization and the Emergence of Social Appearance
Reich and Later Variations
Part II: Karl Marx und Claude Lévi-Strauss
Father and Son: Marx versus Marx
Censorship: Persecution and the Art of Writing
The Marxian
Urszene
: Property and Propriety
Marx and the Euphemists
Claude Lévi-Strauss: the rude, the crude, the nude, and
The Origin of Table Manners
Part III: The Demeaned Jewish Intellectuals: Ideologists of Delayed Modernization
Jews and Irish: Latecomers to Modernity
Secular Jewish Intellectuals as a Modernizing Elite: Jewish Emancipation and the New Nations Compared
Part IV: Children of the Founding Fathers of Diaspora Intellectuality: The Contemporary Scene
A Tale of Two Hoffmans: The Decorum Decision and the Bill of Rites
Jews, Blacks, and the Cold War at the Top: Malamud’s
The Tenants
and the Status Politics of Subcultures
Part V: Conclusion
Modernity, Jewry, Christianity