| Jews Out of the Question: A Critique of Anti-Anti-Semitism Contributor(s): Lapidot, Elad (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438480458 ISBN-13: 9781438480459 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Philosophy | Political - Religion | Judaism - General |
| Dewey: 305.892 |
| LCCN: 2020001221 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.27 lbs) 340 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In post-Holocaust philosophy, anti-Semitism has come to be seen as a paradigmatic political and ideological evil. Jews Out of the Question examines the role that opposition to anti-Semitism has played in shaping contemporary political philosophy. Elad Lapidot argues that post-Holocaust philosophy identifies the fundamental, epistemological evil of anti-Semitic thought not in thinking against Jews, but in thinking of Jews. In other words, what philosophy denounces as anti-Semitic is the figure of "the Jew" in thought. Lapidot reveals how, paradoxically, opposition to anti-Semitism has generated a rejection of Jewish thought in post-Holocaust philosophy. Through critical readings of political philosophers such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Sartre, Arendt, Badiou, and Nancy, the book contends that by rejecting Jewish thought, the opposition to anti-Semitism comes dangerously close to anti-Semitism itself, and at work in this rejection, is a problematic understanding of the relations between politics and thought--a troubling political epistemology. Lapidot's critique of this political epistemology is the book's ultimate aim. |