The Jew inside us

The Jew inside us

An Outline of Cultural History

LAP Lambert Academic Publishing ( 2010-09-12 )

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The acknowledged representations of the Jews in the collective imaginary are broadly a matter of cultural stereotyping. This academic study contends that, far from remaining Manichaeistically positioned, the Jew can rather be viewed as a hybridiz-/ed/-ing self of sorts, if not even as a construct, who has got diachronically actuated, ‘modulated'' or re-/contextualized according to ideological variables or epistemes, whose contradictions, overlappings or paradoxes are here subtly explored and eloquently demonstrated, with evidence from thought-patterns in history, from Western iconography and literature, from cultural rituals or practices, as well as from linguistics. In an implicit and relatively consistent way, a polemical stance is getting voiced on some micro-structural as well as macro-structural issues. What is thus authoritatively updated refers to a/the dialectically ingrained ‘Jew inside'' all of us. Professionally translated from Romanian, this study will be of great interest not only to under-/post-/graduates, researchers and specialists in history, cultural and art studies, religious and philosophic studies or in sociology, but also to the ‘lay'' readership.

Book Details:

ISBN-13:

978-3-8383-9697-2

ISBN-10:

3838396979

EAN:

9783838396972

Book language:

English

By (author) :

Ligia Doina Constantinescu
Viorica S Constantinescu

Number of pages:

200

Published on:

2010-09-12

Category:

Sociology