Law, antisemitism and the Holocaust / David M. Seymour.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seymour, David (David M.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Legal status, laws, etc--Europe.

Jews.

Antisemitism--Europe.

Antisemitism.

Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.

Europe.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

xxi, 138 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge-Cavendish, 2007.

Summary:

Using the work of a range of key thinkers, from Marx to Agambe, Nietzsche, Sartre, Adorno and Horkheimer, Arendt and Lyotard, this book examines the connections between legal rights as an expression of modern political emancipation and the emergence and development of the social phenomenon of antisemitism. Addressing, amongst others the topic of the Holocaust and its impact upon critical forms of thought and public life, it discusses the relationship between law and anti-Semitism. The authors departure from the more traditional analysis, where anti-Semitism is a pre-existent given, a new and exciting perspective sheds doubt upon the idea of a monolithic modern anti-Semitism and questions the popular notion of an eternal antisemitism.

Contents:

Karl Marx : dissolving the Jewish question

From critique to positivism : domination and the naturalisation of antisemitism

The absence of contradiction and the contradiction of absence : law, ethics and the Holocaust

Antisemitism and emancipation : the ressentiment of loss

The slave, the noble and the Jew : reflections on section 7 of On the genealogy of morals

The jurisprudence of Nazi monumental architecture

Conclusion : Hannah Arendt : the genealogy of antisemitism.

Notes:

"A GlassHouse book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [127]-133) and index.

ISBN:

9780415420402

0415420407

9781904385431

1904385435

9780203938447

0203938445

OCLC:

147986595

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