Ideology and Experience: Antisemitism in France at the Time of the Dreyfus Affair

by Stephen Wilson

Book Overview

In this analysis of racialism in late-nineteenth-century France, antisemitism is studied not in isolation but in its social context, as an indicator and symptom of profound social change. As anticapitalism, for example, antisemitism expressed hostility to modern economic forms and 'the rule of money'; as a kind of socialism, it expressed opposition to the establishment without calling the social hierarchy into question; as a kind of nationalism and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904113591
• ISBN13: 9781904113591
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Length: 832 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"