Theodor Lessing

Jewish Self-Hate

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition makes Theodor Lessingâ s seminal work Der Jà dische Selbsthaà accessible to English readers for the first time, supplemented with explanatory footnotes by translator Peter Appelbaum and illustrative essays by historian Sander L. Gilman and German scholar Paul Reitter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781789209860
• ISBN-10: 1789209862
• Artikelnr.: 60099827

Autorenporträt

Theodor Lessing was a German-Jewish philosopher. He taught at Hanover Technical College until right-wing student protests forced him to leave in 1926, after which he worked as an independent scholar and journalist. He was assassinated in 1933 by two National Socialists.

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's Preface
Peter C. Appelbaum
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Sander L. Gilman
ATRIUM
Chapter 1. Jewish Destiny in the East - History as Meaning - How to
Apportion Blame
Chapter 2. Jewish Destiny in the West - The Class Struggle, Antisemitism
and Zionism
Chapter 3. The Psychology and Pathology of Self-hate - The Logic and
Morality of Self-Hate - Prophets and Psalmists
Chapter 4. The Impractical Dreamer - Six Symbolic Figures - Present Day
Examples
Chapter 5. The Suffering of Self-hate - Its Three Paths - Healing
SIX LIFE STORIES
Paul Rée
Otto Weininger
Arthur Trebitsch
Max Steiner
Walter Calé
Maximilian Harden
VAULT
Afterword
Paul Reitter