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Author Rensmann, Lars, author

Title The politics of unreason : the Frankfurt School and the origins of modern antisemitism / Lars Rensmann
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource
Series SUNY series, philosophy and race
SUNY series, philosophy and race.
Contents Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: How the Frankfurt School Has Shaped the Study of Modern Antisemitism; Facing the Politics of Unreason: Critical Theory, Social Research, and Antisemitism; Critical Theory in Context: The Origins of the Frankfurt School's Work on Antisemitism; Rediscovering Critical Theory: The Structure of the Book; 2. From Odysseus to Postliberal Subjectivity: Revisiting Freud and the Civilizational Genesis of Social Domination; Reconstructing Freud: Conflicts of Culture and the Self
Freud Meets Odysseus: Civilizational Origins of Authoritarianism and the Constitution of SubjectivityToward Political Modernity and Postliberal Subjectivity; 3. Loving to Hate: The Antidemocratic Syndrome and the Social Psychology of Modern Authoritarianism; The Study of Modern Authoritarianism: Key Presuppositions in Political and Social Scientific Context; Paralysis, Subjugation, and Aggression: Understanding the Antidemocratic Syndrome's Features and Dynamics; Rage and Ambivalence: Social Conformism, Self-Hatred, and Displacement
Collectivism, Inside and Out: Stereopathic Consciousness and Social IdentificationEichmann Reconsidered: The "Manipulative" Type; Rebellious Conformism; Loving to Hate: Rethinking Modern Authoritarianism and the Rise of Antisemitic Resentment; 4. Objectifying the Other: The Ideology of Antisemitism as False Projection; The Political Context and Research Methods: The Frankfurt School's Empirical Studies on Antisemitism in the 1940s; What Is Antisemitism?; Drawing Connections, Recognizing Differences: Authoritarianism, Racism, Nationalism, and Antisemitism
Hate and Desire in a Distortion Mirror: Psychological Functions of Antisemitic Projections as Reflections of the Self"Explaining" the Modern World: Social Functions of Antisemitism as the Antimodern Personification of Societal Domination and Cri; 5. The Societal Origins of Modern Antisemitism: Judeophobia and Critical Social Theory after Marx and Weber; After Marx: Instrumental Rationality and Judeophobia in an Objectified World; The Triumph of Totality: Judeophobia and the Irrationality of Power, Exclusion, and Social Domination
Antisemitism as the Product and Fetishized Critique of Modernity and CapitalismInstitutions of Social Domination: Modern Antisemitism, Crises, and Transformations of Authority Reconsidered; 6. Power, Desolation, and the Failed Promise of Freedom: Rereading the "Elements of Antisemitism"; Antisemitism, Fascism, and Liberalism; Antisemitic Projections, Dynamic Idealism, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Freedom; Antisemitism and the Reified Image of Capitalism and Modernity; The Religious Roots of Antisemitism; Mimesis, Social Paranoia, and Rationalized Idiosyncrasy
Summary The first systematic analysis of the Frankfurt School's research and theorizing on modern antisemitism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Antisemitism -- Historiography
Antisemitism -- Research -- Germany -- History
Frankfurt school of sociology -- History
Critical theory -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Antisemitism -- Historiography
Critical theory
Frankfurt school of sociology
Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017034595
ISBN 9781438465951
1438465955