This book is at once a philosophical reflection on key problems in the analysis of anti-Semitism and a history of its leading theories and theorists.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Critical Theory and Judeophobia
1. Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialist Antiracism
2. The Frankfurt School and the Anti- Semitic Question
3. Hannah Arendt, Anti- Semitism, and Her "Story" of History
4. The Sociology of Modern Anti-Semitism from Talcott Parsons to Zygmunt Bauman
5. Jean-François Lyotard, Postmodernism, and "the jews"
6. Léon Poliakov, the Origins of Holocaust Studies, and the Long History of Judeophobia
7. George Mosse on Modernity, Culture, and "the Jew"
8. Critical Theory and Post-Holocaust Judeophobia
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Jonathan Judaken is the Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual (2006) and a coeditor of Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context (2012) and The Albert Memmi Reader (2020), among other books.