{"product_id":"antisemitism-and-the-left-on-the-return-of-the-jewish-question-9781526104953","title":"Antisemitism and the Left: On the Return of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUniversalism shows two faces to the world: an emancipatory face that looks to the inclusion of the other, and a repressive face that sees in the other a failure to pass some fundamental test of humanity. Universalism can be used to demand that we treat all persons as human beings regardless of their differences, but it can also be used to represent whole categories of people as inhuman, not yet human or even enemies of humanity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Jewish experience offers an equivocal test case. Universalism has stimulated the struggle for Jewish emancipation, but it has also helped to develop the idea that there is something peculiarly harmful to humanity about Jews – that there is a 'Jewish question' that needs to be 'solved'. This original and stimulating book traces struggles within the Enlightenment, Marxism, critical theory and the contemporary left, seeking to rescue universalism from its repressive, antisemitic undertones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Fine and Spencer are excellent in showing how universalism both offered a progressive pathway to emancipate Jews \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e a means to suppress their particularity. They meticulously probe the conundrum of whether, in Enlightenment thought and practice, Jews could only be humans and never Jews.’\u003cbr\u003eRobin Cohen, University of Oxford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Fine and Spencer have contributed some very sensitive, and sensible, analyses of attitudes towards antisemitism and the Jewish question from universalist thinkers, beginning with the Enlightenment and going on through to current debates on the left about Israel.’\u003cbr\u003eSteven Beller, Independent scholar, Washington D.C., Patterns of prejudice, 2017, Vol. 51, No. 5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Fine and Spencer should be applauded for convincingly demonstrating, in such a short work, the need for the left to confront the Jewish question in order to pursue its political mission.’\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Bland, Royal Holloway, University of London, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Contemporary History\u003c\/i\u003e, Vol. 54, No. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Allegations of antisemitism have been directed at Corbyn and his newly-modelled Labour Party, both from within British Jewry and from within his own party; those same allegations have been rejected by many of Corbyn’s supporters as a politically-motivated smear. Robert Fine – who has sadly passed away since this book was published – and Philip Spencer tried to explain this apparent revival of antisemitism on the left by reference to the history of the Jewish question in European politics.'\u003cbr\u003eDave Rich, Deputy Director of Communications Community Security Trust, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Modern Jewish Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, Vol. 19, No. 3, (2020)\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: universalism and the Jewish question\u003cbr\u003e1 Struggles within Enlightenment: Jewish emancipation and the Jewish question\u003cbr\u003e2 Marx’s defence of Jewish emancipation and critique of the Jewish question\u003cbr\u003e3 Antisemitism, critical theory and the ambivalences of Marxism\u003cbr\u003e4 Political life in an antisemitic world: Hannah Arendt’s Jewish writings\u003cbr\u003e5 The Jewish question after the Holocaust: Jürgen Habermas and the European left\u003cbr\u003e6 The return of the Jewish question and the double life of Israel\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040975618391,"sku":"9781526104953","price":68.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526104953.jpg?v=1750948461","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/antisemitism-and-the-left-on-the-return-of-the-jewish-question-9781526104953","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}