David Patterson

Anti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins

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Produktbeschreibung

This book articulates a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of Jew hatred as a metaphysical aspect of the human soul.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9781107040748
• ISBN-10: 1107040744
• Artikelnr.: 41641964

Autorenporträt

David Patterson holds the Hillel Feinberg Distinguished Chair in Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. A winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the Koret Jewish Book Award, he has published more than two hundred and fifty articles and chapters on philosophy, literature, Judaism, and Holocaust studies. His more than forty books include Judaism, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust; Shoah and Torah; Portraits: Elie Wiesel's Hasidic Legacy; and The Holocaust and the Non-Representable.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: anti-Semitism as deicide
1. Preliminary explanations
2. The arrogation of God: Christian theological anti-Semitism
3. Islamic jihadism: religious-fanatic anti-Semitism
4. The elimination of God: philosophical anti-Semitism in modern thought
5. National socialist anti-Semitism
6. Antihistorical anti-Semitism: Holocaust denial
7. Anti-Zionist anti-Semitism
8. Jewish Jew hatred
9. Sounding the depths of the anti-Semitic soul: Arthur Miller's Focus
Concluding reflection: the messianic side of the soul of Adam.