Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition - Couverture rigide

Nirenberg, David

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9780393058246: Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393058247 ISBN 13 : 9780393058246

Editeur : W W Norton & Co Inc, 2013

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Physical description; x, 610 pages; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary; In this magisterial and definitive study, David Nirenberg charts the evolution of anti-Jewish ideas from 1400 BCE to the present day, demonstrating that anti-Semitic tropes have been inherited and refined across centuries. Rather than flaring up at certain times and places, argues Nirenberg, anti-Jewish feeling runs through the entire history of Western thought, and does not even require the presence of Jews in society in order to thrive. 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. Subjects; Antisemitism - History. Jewish studies; History of ideas, intellectual history; Judaism. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies. HISTORY / Social History. RELIGION / Judaism / General.

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

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.

Revue de presse :

'Elegant and precise ... [His] superb scholarship has done a great service [...] not only to historians' --Edward Peters.

'In this remarkable book, the development of a way of thinking is traced with scholarly rigour' --The Times.

'A truly monumental book. Dark as its subject may be, it is full of delights ... This is a book that will - and should - stop you in your tracks' --The Sunday Times.

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