Robert Fine, Philip Spencer

Antisemitism and the left

On the return of the Jewish question

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Universalism shows two faces to the world: an emancipatory face looking to the inclusion of the other and a repressive face that sees in the other a failure to pass some fundamental test of humanity. Universalism can be used to demand that we treat all persons as human beings regardless of particular differences, but it can also be used to represent whole categories of people as inhuman, not yet human or enemies of humanity. Jewish experience of universalism offers an equivocal test case. Universalism has stimulated the struggle for Jewish emancipation but also helped develop the idea that there is something peculiarly harmful to humanity about Jews and that there is a 'Jewish question' that needs to be 'solved'. This original and stimulating book traces struggles within the Enlightenment, Marxism, critical theory and the contemporary left to rescue universalism from its repressive, antisemitic undertones.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781526104953
• ISBN-10: 1526104954
• Artikelnr.: 47489410

Autorenporträt

Robert Fine was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick Philip Spencer is Emeritus Professor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Kingston University and Visiting Professor in Politics at Birkbeck, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: universalism and the Jewish question 1 Struggles within
Enlightenment: Jewish emancipation and the Jewish question 2 Marx's defence
of Jewish emancipation and critique of the Jewish question 3 Antisemitism,
critical theory and the ambivalences of Marxism 4 Political life in an
antisemitic world: Hannah Arendt's Jewish writings 5 The Jewish question
after the Holocaust: Jürgen Habermas and the European left 6 The return of
the Jewish question and the double life of Israel Index