Excluding the Jew Within Us

by Jean-Luc Nancy

Book Overview

Why 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.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509542736
• ISBN13: 9781509542734
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.9" x 7.4"