Lars Rensmann is Professor of European Politics and Society at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. His books include Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Investigations (coedited with Samir Gandesha).
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
How the Frankfurt School Has Shaped the Study of Modern Antisemitism
2. From Odysseus to Postliberal Subjectivity
Revisiting Freud and the Civilizational Genesis of Social Domination
3. Loving to Hate
The Antidemocratic Syndrome and the Social Psychology of Modern Authoritarianism
4. Objectifying the Other
The Ideology of Antisemitism as False Projection
5. The Societal Origins of Modern Antisemitism
Judeophobia and Critical Social Theory after Marx and Weber
6. Power, Desolation, and the Failed Promise of Freedom
Rereading the "Elements of Antisemitism"
7. The Politics of Paranoia
From Totalitarian Antisemitism to Political Mobilizations of Judeophobia in Democracies
8. Guilt, Responsibility, and Post- Holocaust Democracy
Interpreting "Secondary" Antisemitism
9. Why Critical Theory Matters
Antisemitism, Authoritarian Politics, and Human Dignity in the Global Age
Notes
Bibliography
Index