Anti-Judaism
The Western Tradition
$39.19
- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
7 March 2014
Summary
This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West.
Questions of how we are Jewish and, more critically, how and why we are not have been churning within the Western imagination throughout its history. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans; Christians and Muslims of every period; even the secularis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780393347913 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0393347915 |
| Author: | David Nirenberg |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 7 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 457g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 137mm x 208mm |
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Critics Review
“Learned and disquieting… . Anti-Judaism identifies a persistent and pervasive thread in the fabric of Western thought that no future commentary … will be entitled to ignore.”
“Learned and disquieting… . Anti-Judaism identifies a persistent and pervasive thread in the fabric of Western thought that no future commentary … will be entitled to ignore.” – R. I. Moore - Nation
“Chilling… . Nirenberg offers his painful and important history so that we might recognize these patterns [of intolerance and violence] in hopes of not falling into them yet again.” – Michael S. Roth - Washington Post
“Brilliant, fascinating.” – Michael Walzer - New York Review of Books
”[A] magisterial work of intellectual history.” – Publishers Weekly
David Nirenberg
David Nirenberg is the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where he is also director of the Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society.
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