In this paper, we will analyze Hannah Arendt's approach to the assimilation between the Modern European culture and the Jewish culture in the context of the emancipation of the Jews in eighteenth-century Germany. For this, we will follow the approaches made by the Arendt in the texts The Enlightenment and the Jewish question and The origins of Totalitarianism. To carry out this process, we will reflect on the hypothesis of reading that the author constructs under two ideal images, focusing on two human types that for this German philosopher will express two models of concrete Jews: the Jewish cult of exception and the Jewish Of exception of the wealth. For this reason, to understand this period, we will follow the development of these two archetypal figures, those containing an "exemplary validity" for the German philosopher.
Keywords:
Jewish cult of exception, Jewish exception of wealth, Herder, Lessing, Mendelssohn, assimilation.
Calderón, P. (2016). Hannah Arendt: The Jew of Exception and his failure in the process of assimilation to German society in modernity. Cuadernos Judaicos, (33), 39–74. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-8749.2016.44685
