Author | : David Nirenberg |
File Size | : 40,9 Mb |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 01 July 2013 |
ISBN | : 9781781852965 |
Pages | : 782 pages |
Anti Judaism by David Nirenberg Book PDF Summary
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.