Anti-Judaism the Western tradition
"This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West"--Amazon.
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Co.,
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Table of 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.
