Author: NIRENBERG, DAVID (1964-)
Title: Anti-Judaism: the history of a way of thinking / David Nirenberg
Description: London: Head of Zeus 2013. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. 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. Weight in Kg appr.:

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