Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
Nexus; Essays in German Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 (2011) 27-45
Schlagwort(e):
Weininger, Otto,
;
Sartre, Jean-Paul,
;
Deutscher, Isaac,
;
Bruce, Lenny
;
Antisemitism Philosophy
;
Jews Identity
;
Philosophy
Kurzfassung:
More than a few thinkers, one of the first of them Sartre, have tended to describe Jews and non-Jews alike as social constructs being part of a hierarchical social and symbolic order, and to explain antisemitism in terms of the relationship between these constructs. Suggests that this theoretical model can be applied more broadly than simply to explain antisemitism: it can be helpful for understanding the role of Jews and others in the creation of modern Central European culture. Gender studies and the idea of male and female as social constructs can also be helpful in this regard. Gives examples of understanding and using the constructs of "Jew" and "non-Jew" by individuals as different as Sartre, Otto Weininger, Franz Rudolf Bienenfeld, Isaac Deutscher, Lenny Bruce, and Karl Kraus.
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