Ghost people : race, religion, and the affective sources of Jewish identity / Paul E. Nahme.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nahme, Paul E., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Social conditions--History.

Jews.

Jews--Identity--History.

Race--Philosophy.

Race.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

What does race feel like? What does race make people feel? 'Ghost People' traces the haunting feelings that constitute race as a structural, social, & psychic experience in modern European history by focusing on the case of Jewish racialization. Taking a theoretical cue from W.E.B. Du Bois' question in the 'Souls of Black Folk', 'How does it feel to be a problem?', Paul E. Nahme queries the affective experience of racial formation & reframes how we should think & talk about the Jewish Question. He explores the ways feeling & emotion have coloured the lives of different people in social, political, & psycho-social dimensions.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

1 Racial Affect, Spectral Jewishness, and the Haunting of Racial Modernity

Haunting Affects, Haunting Others

Affective Race-Making

Jewish Racial Affect(s)

Disavowal in "Defense" of the Jews

The Spectral Sensorium of Jewishness

The (In)visible Body

A Summary of Specters

2 Disavowing Other Worlds: Affect, Fetishism, and Racialized Religion in Nineteenth-Century Europe

The Relationality of Affects

Transitional Phenomena and Affective Flow

Disavowal and Belief in Reality

The Fetish

Fetishizing Religion

Questioning the Otherworldly: Primitive and African "Religions"

The Indo-Aryan Psyche and the Disavowal of the Semites

The Double Bind of Racialized Religion

Failing to Believe in Other Worlds and the Fetishism of Culture

3 "The One Human Life That I Know Best": Racial Affects in W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Buber

The Reflective Self and Racial Feeling

Africa as an Affective World

Cultural Ambivalence and Qualified Bildung

The Positionality Question

The Orient as Religio-Racial Identity and the Failures of Assimilation

Martin Buber and Jewish Spiritual Strivings

Jewish Mysticism and the Otherworldly

Summary

4 Race and the Theologico-Political Problem of Affect

Liberalism: Private Enmities and Public Emotions

Private Race, Public Religion

Carl Schmitt: Enmity as a Racialized Political Emotion

What Does It Feel Like to Be a (Theologico-Political) Problem?

The Political Theology of Race and Nationalist Disavowal

A Nation By Any Other Name: Jewish Nationalism

Hope and the Cruel Optimism of Political Zionism

Unresolved Feelings

Conclusion: Ghost People

Racial Melancholy, Religious Longing

Jewish Racial Melancholia and the Private Empathy of Election.

The Theologico-Political Problem of Ghosts

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Conclusion

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 29, 2024).

ISBN:

9780197691861

0197691862

9780197691854

0197691854

9780197691847

0197691846

OCLC:

1436031050