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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Nirenberg |
| ISBN: | 9780393058246 0393058247 |
| OCLC Number: | 783163429 |
| Description: | x, 610 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Thinking about Judaism, or, The Judaism of thought -- The ancient world: Egypt, exodus, empire -- Early Christianity: the road to Emmaus, the road to Damascus -- The early Church: making sense of the world in Jewish terms -- "To every prophet an adversary": Jewish enmity in Islam -- "The revenge of the Savior": Jews and power in medieval Europe -- The extinction of Spain's Jews and the birth of its Inquisition -- Reformation and its consequences -- "Which is the merchant here, and which the Jew?": acting Jewish in Shakespeare's England -- "Israel" at the foundations of Christian politics: 1545-1677 -- Enlightenment revolts against Judaism: 1670-1789 -- The revolutionary perfection of the world: 1789-? -- Philosophical struggles with Judaism, from Kant to Heine -- Modernity thinks with Judaism -- Drowning intellectuals. |
| Responsibility: | David Nirenberg. |
Abstract:
A powerful history that shows anti-Judaism to be a central way of thinking in the Western tradition.
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