{"product_id":"excluding-the-jew-within-us-hardback-9781509542727","title":"Excluding the Jew Within Us (Hardback) 9781509542727","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eExcluding the Jew Within Us\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJean-Luc Nancy (Author), Sarah Clift (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509542727, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 June 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e60 pages\u003cbr\u003e19.6 x 13 x 1.4 cm, 0.193 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e�Drawing from Lacoue-Labarthe�s intuition that antisemitism is both �historial� and �spiritual�, Nancy offers us a decisive rethinking of the �banality� of antisemitic hatred and violence situated in light of the historical-metaphysical constitution of the Subject and the specific configuration of Europe and the West.� \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip Armstrong, The Ohio State University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhy does anti-Semitism seem to be so deeply engrained in our societies, our institutions and our attitudes?  To answer this question we need to look beyond our current practices and see that anti-Semitism has much deeper roots – that it is woven into the very structures of Western thought. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Jean-Luc Nancy argues that anti-Semitism emerged from the conflictual conjunction of two responses to the eclipse of archaic cultures.  The Greek and the Jewish responses both affirmed a humanity freed from myth but put forward two very different conceptions of autonomy: on the one hand, the infinite autonomy of knowledge, of logos, and on the other, the paradoxical autonomy of a heteronomy guided by a hidden god.  The first excluded the second while simultaneously absorbing and dominating it; the second withdrew into itself and its condition of exclusion and domination.  How could the long and terrible history of the hatred of the Jew, masking a self-loathing, be generated by these intrinsically contradictory beginnings?  That is the question to which this short book gives a compelling answer.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface to the English edition vii \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Banality 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Historial and spiritual 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Autoimmunity 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Extermination 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Omnipotence 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Revelation 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Incompatibility 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Judeo-Christianity 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Self-loathing 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Mutation 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Drives 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Antisemitic God 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional notes 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 75\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441807159576,"sku":"9781509542727","price":30.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509542727.jpg?v=1785026366","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/excluding-the-jew-within-us-hardback-9781509542727","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}