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Rogozinski, Jacob

 
9781531505363: The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the Terror
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1531505368 ISBN 13 : 9781531505363
Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2024

Synopsis

This book works to uncover the logic of hatred, to understand how this affect manifests itself historically in persecution and terror apparatuses. More than a historical genealogy of persecution, The Logic of Hatred shows what phenomenology can offer to historical understanding. Focusing on the witch-hunts waged in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, the first part of the book analyzes the techniques instigators used to designate and annihilate their targets: the search for diabolical stigma, the confession of "truth" extracted by torture, the constitution of an absolute Enemy through the suggestion of conspiracy, of a world turned upside-down, or the figure of Satan.

Rogozinski locates one of the origins of the witch-hunt in the anguish that popular uprisings arouse in dominant classes. The second part of the book extends the investigation to related phenomena, such as the extermination of lepers in the Middle Ages and the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. By studying these historical experiences and marking their differences and similarities, this book shows the passage from exclusion to persecution and how revolts of the oppressed can let themselves be transformed and captured by persecutory politics. The analyses presented thus shed light on conspiracy theory and the terror apparatuses of our time.

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À propos des auteurs

Jacob Rogozinski is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Strasbourg. He is the author of The Ego and the Flesh: An Introduction to Egoanalysis.

Sepehr Razavi is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

Carlo Ginzburg is Professor Emeritus of History at UCLA. His books include The Cheese and the Worms and, most recently, The Soul of Brutes.

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Éditeur
Fordham University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1531505368
ISBN 13 
9781531505363
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
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Personne responsable
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