Volume 38, Number 18 · November 7, 1991
Idealists Against the Jews
By Anthony Quinton
Revolutionary Antisemitism In Germany From Kant to Wagner
by Paul Lawrence Rose
Princeton University Press, 389 pp., $29.95
The suggestion of the title of Paul Rose's imposing book that Kant, the patron saint of liberal humanitarianism, was in fact the initiator of an important, and perhaps the crucial, strand in German anti-Semitism may come as something of a shock. But for this and for a number of other, more comprehensive, propositions, Paul Lawrence Rose has assembled a powerful, if rather single-minded case. In twenty long chapters he presents the results of an enormous amount of reading in the primary and secondary literature of nineteenth-century German intellectual history, which is attested to by the luxuriant fringe of notes dangling at the bottom of nearly every one of the book's 379 pages of text.
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