Where are the Jews? the Missing "guests" in the Shadow of God

Michael Rosen's The Shadow of God offers a rich account of ideas of secularization in the German Idealist tradition. In this short article, I contend that, despite its sophistication, the book misses the extent to which questions about Jewish emancipation were central to these debates. I focus on how, as Hegel misconstrued Judaism as the heteronomous religion of a people of 'slaves,' this leads Rosen to neglect some significant antisemitic underpinnings of broader philosophical and sociological arguments on secularization.