Jewish Self-Hate / / Theodor Lessing.

A seminal text in Jewish thought accessible to English readers for the first time. The diagnosis of Jewish self-hatred has become almost 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...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (186 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Translator’s Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 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 Suff ering of Self-Hate – Its Three Paths – Healing
  • Six Life Stories
  • Paul Rée
  • Otto Weininger
  • Arthur Trebitsch
  • Max Steiner
  • Walter Calé
  • Maximilian Harden
  • Vault
  • Afterword
  • About the Translator
  • About the Editor