Benjamin B. Strosberg: Anti-Semitism at the Limit, Gebunden

Blurb

In this book, Benjamin Strosberg explores difficulties and anxieties inherent in studying, defining, and defending against anti-Semitism by tracing a concurrent difficulty in thinking about Jewishness, which has historically served as a limit case for central social categories such as outsider, religion, race, gender, and nation. Dr. Strosberg draws on Zygmunt Bauman s concept of proteophobiäthe anxious fear of what doesn t fit into clear-cut categories to think more carefully about anti-Semitism as response to the complex-realities of ambivalence and otherness. The book proposes negative psychology as a methodology for studying anti-Semitism and proteophobia rooted in psychoanalysis and Theodor Adorno s Critical Theory. Drawing from lived experiences, contemporary events, and debates in the field, this compelling work explores the broad implications of the investigation of anti-Semitism for politics, education, and psychoanalysis, as well as the specific implications for Jewish identity and resistance.