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Informationen zum Autor David Seymour is a lecturer at Lancaster University Law School. His key research interests are law, antisemitism and the Holocaust; law and aesthetics; contemporary social and legal theory. Klappentext Using the work of a range of key thinkers, from Marx to Agambe, Nietzsche, Sartre, Adorno and Horkheimer, Arendt and Lyotard, this book examines the connections between legal rights as an expression of modern political emancipation and the emergence and development of the social phenomenon of antisemitism. Addressing, amongst others the topic of the Holocaust and it's impact upon critical forms of thought and public life, it discusses the relationship between law and anti-Semitism. The author's departure from the more traditional analysis, where anti-Semitism is a pre-existent given, a new and exciting perspective sheds doubt upon the idea of a monolithic 'modern' anti-Semitism and questions the popular notion of an 'eternal antisemitism'. Zusammenfassung Using the work of a range of key thinkers, including Marx, Agamben, Nietzsche, Sartre, Adorno and Horkheimer, Arendt and Lyotard, this book examines the connections between legal rights as an expression of modern political emancipation and the emergence and development of the social phenomenon of antisemitism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Time's Arrow. Law, Antisemitism and the Holocaust. Limits of Emancipation: Rights, Ressentiment and Antisemitism. Jews without Judaism, Judaism without Jews: Conceptualization of 'The Jews' and 'The Law' in Critical Thought. Radical Rupture or Critical Reflection: The Impact of the Holocaust on Theorizing Law and Antisemitism. Conclusion: Resisting Melancholia: Law Contra Antisemitism
