Dan Diner. Cataclysms: A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s Edge. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 368 PP. Cloth $35.00. ISBN: 9780299223502. Anyone studying the twentieth century will have little trouble identifying certain …
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Sean Bloch: The “ben Izraeli” and the British Colonial Imagination in East Africa
Africa is a space for imagining. From a land of slaves with different attributes to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to a “country” beset by maladies, the African continent has been and remains a repository …
Jon Beltz, Jan Assmann’s “Of God and Gods”: Who Influences Whom?
Jan Assmann. Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 200 PP. Cloth. $26.95. ISBN: 9780299225544. One critical question in the study of religion from at …
Jon Beltz, Jan Assmann’s “Of God and Gods”: Religious Violence
Jan Assmann. Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 200 PP. Cloth. $26.95. ISBN: 9780299225544. Violence and its perpetrators play an important part in …
Jon Beltz, Jan Assmann’s “Of God and Gods”: Egyptology in Modern European Thought
Jan Assmann. Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 200 PP. Cloth. $26.95. ISBN: 9780299225544. As mentioned in my previous post on Jan Assmann’s book …
Jon Beltz, Jan Assmann’s “Of God and Gods”: An Overview
Jan Assmann. Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 200 PP. Cloth. $26.95. ISBN: 9780299225544. At first glance, Egyptologist Jan Assmann’s book Of God and …
Jason Doerre, On the Value of Studying Nazi Culture
George L. Mosse. Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural, and Social Life in the Third Reich. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. 448 PP. Cloth. $32.95. ISBN: 9780299193041. “The Third Reich has made a deep impression upon …
Matthew Unangst, Carl Schmitt and the Jews: Schmitt’s Legacy
Raphael Gross. Carl Schmitt and the Jews: The “Jewish Question,” the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory. Trans. Joel Golb. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. 344 PP. Cloth. $45.00. ISBN: 9780299222406. This is the fourth …
Matthew Unangst, Carl Schmitt and the Jews: Sovereignty
Raphael Gross. Carl Schmitt and the Jews: The “Jewish Question,” the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory. Trans. Joel Golb. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. 344 PP. Cloth. $45.00. ISBN: 9780299222406. This is the third …
Matthew Unangst, The Theology of Carl Schmitt’s Antisemitism
Raphael Gross. Carl Schmitt and the Jews: The “Jewish Question,” the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory. Trans. Joel Golb. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. 344 PP. Cloth. $45.00. ISBN: 9780299222406. This is the second …
Matthew Unangst, The Antisemitism of Carl Schmitt
Raphael Gross. Carl Schmitt and the Jews: The “Jewish Question,” the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory. Trans. Joel Golb. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. 344 PP. Cloth. $45.00. ISBN: 9780299222406. Raphael Gross’ Carl Schmitt …
Dan Hummel, Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses: General Will
Mosse’s General Will and Christianity On the first page of Nationalization of the Masses, Mosse introduces us to the “general will,” a term rooted in the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) that consists of “the …
Dan Hummel, Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses: Politics as Drama
Politics as Drama: Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses One of Nationalization of the Masses’ most enduring contributions is to evoke how the masses came to see politics as a “drama within which liturgical rites took …
Dan Hummel, Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses: Political Rallies
Political Rallies: Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses On August 21, 1980, Ronald Reagan, then mere months from winning the presidency, uttered one of his most famous (and infamous) lines of that election year. Speaking to …
Dan Hummel, Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses: Secular Religion
Secular Religion: Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses The Nationalization of the Masses is not one of George Mosse’s best known works, but it remains a stimulating and relevant analysis of the rise of mass movements …
Ana Schaposchnik, “The Lima Inquisition: The Plight of Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Peru”015)
Ana E. Schaposchnik. The Lima Inquisition: The Plight of Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Peru. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. 294 PP. Cloth. $65.00. ISBN: 9780299306106. The Holy Office of the Inquisition (a royal tribunal that …
Chad Alan Goldberg, “Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought”
Chad Alan Goldberg. Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 256 PP. Cloth. $113.00. ISBN: 9780226460413. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in …
Brad Baranowski, review of Martin Jay’s “Reason After its Eclipse”
Martin Jay. Reason after Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. 272 PP. Cloth. $44.95. ISBN: 9780299306502. Martin Jay, Reason …