Engels explained his admiration for Balzac by pointing to an apparent discrepancy between Balzac’s literature and his politics. Despite his sympathies for the French nobility, Balzac’s realism “compelled” him to portray this class in unflattering terms. In this article, I challenge Engels’s reading, arguing that Marx’s scattered remarks on Balzac take us in a different direction. Specifically, I argue that in his remark on Balzac’s The Peasants Marx pinpointed the author’s preoccupation with the spread of bourgeois ideology into the nobility. Building on this remark, I analyze several of Balzac’s works showing that insofar as Balzac lambasted the nobles, his critique was primarily directed towards nobles who had adopted bourgeois ways. In this light, and against Engels’s observation, Balzac’s critique of the nobles appears to stem from his sympathy to aristocratic values rather than conflicting with them. In showing that affinities between Balzac, Marx and Engels did not depend on Balzac expressing anti-noble sentiment, I argue that the admiration the fathers of communism had for the monarchist’s prose exemplifies a partial, yet typical convergence between socialists and conservatives in their critique of modern bourgeois society.
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Naharaim
Zeitschrift für deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte (Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History)
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Edited by:
Benjamin Pollock
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Managing Editor:
Amit Levy
Languages:
German, English
First published:
May 20, 2007
Publication Frequency:
2 issues per year
About this journal
The journal Naharaim was founded by the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2007 and appears bi-annually. It is a peer-reviewed journal and publishes the latest research on philosophical, literary and historical aspects of German-Jewish culture. The articles appear in both German and English.
Naharaim (Hebrew for Zweistromland, a land that lies between two rivers) presents biographical portraits and research on the intellectual history of German-speaking Jewry. The journal explores paradigmatic thinkers within German-Jewish modernism since the Emancipation; traces the outlines of the German-Jewish experience both in the context of general Jewish issues and beyond the specific Jewish horizon; discusses the phenomenon of secularisation as a process of transformation of religious content taking place within the framework of a secular worldview; and critically engages with theoretical debates in France, North America and Germany that address topics from past and contemporary Jewish thought.
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Editors
Benjamin Pollock, Jerusalem
Daniel Weidner, Berlin
Christian Wiese, Frankfurt a.M.
In cooperation with
Steven Aschheim, Jerusalem
Aleida Assmann, Konstanz
Agata Bielik-Robson, Nottingham/Warsaw
Doerte Bischoff, Hamburg
Amir Eshel, Stanford, CA
David Groiser, Oxford
Gabriel Motzkin, Jerusalem
Paul North, New Haven, CT
Eric Santner, Chicago, IL
Galili Shahar, Tel Aviv
Sigrid Weigel, Berlin
Editorial Manager
Amit Levy
The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center
for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mt. Scopus, Rabin Building
Jerusalem 9190501, Israel
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eISSN:
1862-9156
ISSN:
1862-9148
Languages:
German, English
Publisher:
De Gruyter
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First published:
May 20, 2007
Publication Frequency:
2 issues per year
eISSN:
1862-9156
ISSN:
1862-9148
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