"A bold, ambitious, and timely evaluation of philosophical and literary imagination of language."-B. Venkat Mani, Author of Cosmopolitical Claims: Turkish-German Literatures from Nadolny to Pamuk "A welcome, necessary, and well-crafted addition to a variety of studies in the fields of German-Turkish and German-Jewish studies--studies that increasingly participate in the much broader discussion of modernity/modernism, postmodern identities, globalization, multiculturalism, and ethnicity studies."-Amir Eshel, Stanford University