{"product_id":"the-anti-journalist-paul-reitter-9780226754574","title":"The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siècle Europe","description":"In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage. Kraus's spectacularly hostile critiques often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists, which brought him a reputation as the quintessential self-hating Jew. \u003ci\u003eThe Anti-Journalist\u003c\/i\u003e overturns this view with unprecedented force and sophistication, showing how Kraus's criticisms form the center of a radical model of German-Jewish self-fashioning, and how that model developed in concert with Kraus's modernist journalistic style.\u003cbr\u003e Paul Reitter's study of Kraus's writings situates them in the context of fin-de-siècle German-Jewish intellectual society. He argues that rather than stemming from anti-Semitism, Kraus's attacks constituted an innovative critique of mainstream German-Jewish strategies for assimilation. Marshalling three of the most daring German-Jewish authors-Kafka, Scholem, and Benjamin-Reitter explains their admiration for Kraus's project and demonstrates his influence on their own notions of cultural authenticity. \u003ci\u003eThe Anti-Journalist\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a new interpretation of a fascinating modernist oeuvre and a heady exploration of an important stage in the history of German-Jewish thinking about identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Reitter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022675457X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226754574\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d","brand":"Paul Reitter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48064793575679,"sku":"9780226754574","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_58652b5b-e9ff-477f-8ca8-62617a6f509f.jpg?v=1768671088","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-anti-journalist-paul-reitter-9780226754574","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}