Is Theory Good for the Jews?

Informationen zum Autor Bruno Chaouat is Professor of French at the University of Minnesota. Klappentext By looking back to the emergence of a postwar theoretical discourse on trauma, memory, victims, suffering, the Holocaust and the Jews, Is Theory Good for the Jews? explores how "French thought" is implicated in intellectual, literary and ideological components of the global and local upsurge of antisemitism Zusammenfassung Exploring the cultural! intellectual! literary! and ideological roots of French engagement with the global and local upsurge of antisemitism in the 21st century! this book endeavors to understand phenomena of repression! distortion! perversion! or outright denial! within the specific context of French intellectual and cultural history.

Product details

• Authors: Bruno Chaouat
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2016
• EAN: 9781781383346
• ISBN: 978-1-78138-334-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO; Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories