Heine and Critical Theory
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Heine's Jewish Difference and the Project of Critical Theory -- Heine's Jewish Comedy -- Heine and the Frankfurt School: Dialectic of a Constellation -- Heine's Modernity -- 1 Displacement, Relocation, and the Dialectic of a Constellation: Heine, Critical Theory, and the New York Intellectuals -- Leo Löwenthal, Max Horkheimer, andHeine in the Bronx -- Adorno and Benjamin -- Adolph S. Oko -- Hannah Arendt -- The Heine Debates in Commentary -- 2 Heine's Readers: Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud -- Marx -- Nietzsche -- Freud -- Heine's Legacy and its Continuing Significance -- 3 Heine's Dissonant Aesthetics -- Contrast, Dissonance, and Disenchantment -- The Critical Function of Dissonance in Adorno -- A Californian Perspective -- Returning "Home": Heine the Wound -- Heine's Dissonant Voices -- 4 The Signifying Lizard: Language, Sign, and Play -- Goethe and the Frankfurt School of Language -- The Signifying Lizard -- Monkeys Might Understand but Choose Not to Speak -- Ticking Watches and the Beat of Drums -- Displaced Philology and the Language of the Other -- No Idea: The Nonconceptual -- 5 Messiah in Golden Chains: Deferred Action and the Concept of History -- Historical Materialism -- Constellation and Counterhistories -- After History: The View from the Prompter's Box -- The Terror of Deferred Action and the Problem of Representation: Heine on Delaroche's History Paintings -- The Messiah in Golden Chains -- Dream, Imagination, History: Going Forward Going Back -- Nachträglichkeit's Aftereffects: Heine and Freud -- Eulogy of a Dying God and Moses's Creation of a People -- Temporality, the Paradox of Time, and Nonsimultaneity -- "And Only Time Remains" -- 6 The Comedy of Body and Mind: Emancipation and the Power of the Affects