Jewish Self-Hate

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78920-986-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 429 g

The diagnosis of Jewish self-hatred has become almost a commonplace in contemporary cultural and political debates, but the concept’s origins are not widely appreciated. In its modern form, it received its earliest and fullest expression in Theodor Lessing’s 1930 book Der jüdische Selbsthaß. Written on the eve of Hitler’s ascent to power, Lessing’s hotly contested work has been variously read as a defense of the Weimar Republic, a platform for anti-Weimar sentiments, an attack on psychoanalysis, an inspirational personal guide, and a Zionist broadside. This new edition makes a seminal text in Jewish thought accessible to English readers for the first time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lessing, Theodor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Identität & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Translator’s Preface

Peter C. Appelbaum

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Sander L. Gilman

ATRIUM

Chapter 1. Jewish Destiny in the East – History as Meaning – How to Apportion Blame

Chapter 2. Jewish Destiny in the West – The Class Struggle, Antisemitism and Zionism

Chapter 3. The Psychology and Pathology of Self-hate – The Logic and Morality of Self-Hate – Prophets and Psalmists

Chapter 4. The Impractical Dreamer – Six Symbolic Figures – Present Day Examples

Chapter 5. The Suffering of Self-hate – Its Three Paths – Healing

SIX LIFE STORIES

Paul Rée

Otto Weininger

Arthur Trebitsch

Max Steiner

Walter Calé

Maximilian Harden

VAULT

Afterword

Paul Reitter

Über Autor(innen)

Lessing, Theodor
Theodor Lessing was a German-Jewish philosopher. He taught at Hanover Technical College until right-wing student protests forced him to leave in 1926, after which he worked as an independent scholar and journalist. He was assassinated in 1933 by two National Socialists.