Freud, Jews, and other Germans : masters and victims in modernist culture

Introduction--German questions. 1 Sigmund Freud--a German and his discontents. 2 Encounter with modernism--German Jews in Wilhelminian culture. 3 The Berlin-Jewish spirit--a dogma in search of some doubts. 4 Hermann Levi--a study in service and self-hatred--a study in service and self-hatred. 5 Aimez-vous Brahms? On polarities in modernism. 6 For Beckmesser--Eduard Hanslick, victim and prophet

'Visible and interwoven though my pervasive themes may be, I have underscored their interrelationships by revising and enlarging each of these essays, some of them substantially, and by adding an Introduction in which I elaborate the arguments I am adumbrating in this Preface. Yet I do not want to claim more for this collection than I have a right to claim: these essays are just that--essays. They are explorations in a region of our recent past of which we know much, and which is documented to an almost bewildering degree, but which we have mastered neither intellectually nor emotionally.' -- Preface

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