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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Lapidot, Elad
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| Publisher: |
State University of New York Press
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| Date: |
07/02/2021
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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.
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