Bibliograph

Jews out of the question, a critique ofanti-anti-Semitism, Elad Lapidot

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Jews out of the question, a critique ofanti-anti-Semitism, Elad Lapidot

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Jews out of the question

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Elad Lapidot

Series statement

Suny series, philosophy and race

Sub title

a critique ofanti-anti-Semitism

Summary

A provocative study of opposition to anti-Semitism in contemporary political philosophy. 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

Target audience

adult

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