Anti-Judaism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anti-Judaism write by David Nirenberg. This book was released on 2013-07-01. Anti-Judaism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A magisterial history, ranging from antiquity to the present, that reveals anti-Judaism to be a mode of thought deeply embedded in the Western tradition. There is a widespread tendency to regard anti-Judaism – whether expressed in a casual remark or implemented through pogrom or extermination campaign – as somehow exceptional: an unfortunate indicator of personal prejudice or the shocking outcome of an extremist ideology married to power. But, as David Nirenberg argues in this ground-breaking study, to confine anit-Judaism to the margins of our culture is to be dangerously complacent. Anti-Judaism is not an irrational closet in the vast edifice of Western thought, but rather one of the basic tools with which that edifice was constructed.
Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition
Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition write by David Nirenberg. This book was released on 2013-02-04. Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Exhilarating . . . a scholarly tour de force. The story Nirenberg has to tell is not over.”—Adam Kirsch, Tablet This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West. Questions of how we are Jewish and, more critically, how and why we are not have been churning within the Western imagination throughout its history. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans; Christians and Muslims of every period; even the secularists of modernity have used Judaism in constructing their visions of the world. The thrust of this tradition construes Judaism as an opposition, a danger often from within, to be criticized, attacked, and eliminated. The intersections of these ideas with the world of power—the Roman destruction of the Second Temple, the Spanish Inquisition, the German Holocaust—are well known. The ways of thought underlying these tragedies can be found at the very foundation of Western history.
Antisemitism
Antisemitism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Antisemitism write by Robert S. Wistrich. This book was released on 1994. Antisemitism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Available for the first time in paperback, Wistrich's widely praised study takes a sweeping look at the phenomenon of antisemitism, tracing the insidious hatred of Jews from its pagan roots to its manifestation in present-day hotspots--including Communist bloc countries and Middle Eastern Islamic lands. Illustrated.
Nietzsche's Jewish Problem
Nietzsche's Jewish Problem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nietzsche's Jewish Problem write by Robert C. Holub. This book was released on 2015-10-20. Nietzsche's Jewish Problem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive account of Nietzsche's views of Jews and Judaism For more than a century, Nietzsche's views about Jews and Judaism have been subject to countless polemics. The Nazis infamously fashioned the philosopher as their anti-Semitic precursor, while in the past thirty years the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction. The increasingly popular view today is that Nietzsche was not only completely free of racist tendencies but also was a principled adversary of anti-Jewish thought. Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem offers a definitive reappraisal of the controversy, taking the full historical, intellectual, and biographical context into account. As Robert Holub shows, a careful consideration of all the evidence from Nietzsche’s published and unpublished writings and letters reveals that he harbored anti-Jewish prejudices throughout his life. Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem demonstrates how this is so despite the apparent paradox of the philosopher’s well-documented opposition to the crude political anti-Semitism of the Germany of his day. As Holub explains, Nietzsche’s "anti-anti-Semitism" was motivated more by distaste for vulgar nationalism than by any objection to anti-Jewish prejudice. A richly detailed account of a controversy that goes to the heart of Nietzsche’s reputation and reception, Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem will fascinate anyone interested in philosophy, intellectual history, or the history of anti-Semitism.
The Definition of Anti-Semitism
The Definition of Anti-Semitism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Definition of Anti-Semitism write by Kenneth L. Marcus. This book was released on 2015. The Definition of Anti-Semitism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is anti-Semitism? Previous efforts to define'anti-Semitism' have been complicated by the term's disreputable origins, discredited sources, diverse manifestations, and contested politics. The Definition of Anti-Semitism explores the ways in which anti-Semitism has historically been defined, demonstrates the weaknesses in prior efforts, and develops a new definition of anti-Semitism.
