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HUMAN
ARCHITECTURE
Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge
Volume VII Issue 2 Spring 2009
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Historicizing Anti-Semitism
Proceedings of the International Conference on the Post-September 11th New Ethnic/Racial Configurations in
Europe and the United States: The Case of Anti-Semitism Maison des Science de l'Home (MSH) Paris, June 29-30, 2007
Journal Editor:
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, UMass Boston
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Issue Co-Editors:
Lewis R. Gordon, Temple University
Ramón Grosfoguel, U.C. Berkeley
Eric Mielants, Fairfield University
The articles collected in this Spring
2009 (VII, 2) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of
the Sociology of Self-Knowledge entitled "Historicizing Anti-Semitism" were part of
an international conference entitled, “The
Post-September 11 New Ethnic/Racial
Configurations in Europe and the United
States: The Case of Anti-Semitism,” organized
by Lewis Gordon and Ramón Grosfoguel
at the Maison des Sciences de
l’Homme (MSH) in Paris on June 29–30,
2007. Part of a series inaugurated by a discussion
on Islamophobia, they brought a majority Jewish group of scholars
together in the hope of bringing to the
forum a critical exchange and conversation
among the participants. The articles gathered here do not
represent a unified voice but those often
unheard in discussions of anti-Semitism. The focus on anti-Semitism in this collection
raises the question of how ancient
and Medieval versions of anti-Jewish
practices should be interpreted, especially
since even the term “Semite” came about as
an effort in eighteenth-century French and
German scholarship to organize Arabic,
Aramaic, and Hebrew under a single linguistic
nomenclature, which was crystallized
in the nineteenth century in the work
of the French scholar Ernest Renan. Contributores include: Lewis R. Gordon, Ramón Grosfoguel, Eric Mielants, David Ost, James Cohen, Santiago E. Slabodsky, Rabson Wuriga, Walter Mignolo, Ramón Grosfoguel, Marc H. Ellis, Etienne Balibar, Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Martine Chard-Hutchinson, Michael Löwy, Jean-Paul Rocchi and Mohammad H. Tamdgidi.
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Number of Pages: 192
Publisher: Okcir Press (2009 pb) (2012 eb)
Language: English
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Contents
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Historicizing Anti-Semitism
Proceedings of the International Conference on the Post-September 11th New Ethnic/Racial Configurations in
Europe and the United States: The Case of Anti-Semitism Maison des Science de l'Home (MSH) Paris, June 29-30, 2007
vii—Editor’s Note: Historicizing Anti-Semitism
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, University of Massachusetts Boston
1—Global Anti-Semitism in World-Historical Perspective: An Introduction
Issue Co-Editors: Lewis R. Gordon, Temple University; Ramón Grosfoguel, U.C. Berkeley;
and Eric Mielants, Fairfield University
15—Anti-Semitism in the Peculiar Context of Eastern Europe
David Ost, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
23—The Accusation of Anti-Semitism as Moral Blackmail:
Conservative Jews in France and the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
James Cohen, Université de Paris VIII, France
35—“But there are no longer any anti-Semites!”:
Vicious Circles, Jewish Destinies, and a Complementary Framework to Read De-colonial Discourses
Santiago E. Slabodsky, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
53—Role and Impact of Intellectual Factor in the 18th-20th Centuries’
European Conception of ‘Jews as Jews’: A Revisitation
Rabson Wuriga, Temple University
69—Dispensable and Bare Lives:
Coloniality and The Hidden Political/Economic Agenda of Modernity
Walter Mignolo, Duke University
89—Human Rights and Anti-Semitism after GAZA
Ramón Grosfoguel, University of California, Berkeley
103—On Jewish Particularity and Anti-Semitism:
Notes From a Jewish Theology of Liberation
Marc H. Ellis, Baylor University
123—“God will not remain silent”: Zionism, Messianism and Nationalism
Etienne Balibar, University of Paris, France
135—Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: The Formation of a Secret
Ivan Davidson Kalmar, University of Toronto, Canada
145—‘Perpetual Fear’: Repetition and Fantasy in The Plot against America by Philip Roth
Martine Chard-Hutchinson, Institut Charles V- Université Paris Diderot, France
151—Franz Kafka’s Trial and the Anti-Semitic Trials of His Time
Michael Löwy, CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), France
159—Dying Metaphors and Deadly Fantasies: Freud, Baldwin and Race as Intimacy
Jean-Paul Rocchi, Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7), France