TY - JOUR
AU - Elkin, Judith Laikin
AB - 1370 Reviews of Books Retracing the development of materialist thought in "sinister character in Germany, but elsewhere, as with the nineteenth century, mainly in Germany but also the Utilitarians themselves, went along with the most devoting attention to English Utilitarianism and Dar­ enlightened liberal attitudes." ("Positivism and the winism and their respective contributions to German Separation of Law and Morals," Harvard Law Review thought, Wittgau-Horgby recounts the ideas of mate­ 71 [1958]: 618). rialistic and mechanistic thinkers like Jacob Mole­ Whatever its weaknesses or deficiencies, contempo­ schott, Ludwig Biichner, Carl Vogt, and Ludwig rary West European liberal society is not what Witt­ Feuerbach and links their thought to research in the gau-Horgby describes. Freedom and protection of biological sciences, especially to the advances in cell individual rights, as well as conventional moral obliga­ theory in the work of Matthias Schleiden, Theodor tions, are still respected in contemporary Western Schwann, and Rudolf Virchow. When Wittkau-Horgby society in ways that were hardly typical of the amoral extends her discussion to include representative fig­ social evolutionary assumptions of the German legal ures of so-called German Rechtspositivismus, the "legal positivists. Because of the decisive break between the positivists" of the latter part of 
TI - Albert S. Lindemann. Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1997. Pp. xxi, 568. $34.95
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/104.4.1370
DA - 1999-10-01
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SP - 1370
EP - 1371
VL - 104
IS - 4
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