Anti-Semitism and its Metaphysical Origins
Cambridge University Press, 2/9/2015
EAN 9781107040748, ISBN10: 1107040744
Hardcover, 334 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Language: English
This book articulates a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of Jew hatred as a metaphysical aspect of the human soul. Proceeding from the Jewish thinking that the anti-Semites oppose, David Patterson argues that anti-Semitism arises from the most ancient of temptations, the temptation to be as God, and thus to flee from an absolute accountability to and for the other human being.
Introduction
anti-Semitism as deicide
1. Preliminary explanations
2. The arrogation of God
Christian theological anti-Semitism
3. Islamic jihadism
religious-fanatic anti-Semitism
4. The elimination of God
philosophical anti-Semitism in modern thought
5. National socialist anti-Semitism
6. Antihistorical anti-Semitism
Holocaust denial
7. Anti-Zionist anti-Semitism
8. Jewish Jew hatred
9. Sounding the depths of the anti-Semitic soul
Arthur Miller's Focus
Concluding reflection
the messianic side of the soul of Adam.