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1 online resource (203 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 The Chosen Ones (St. Paul) -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Chapter 2 The Secret of the Scapegoat (René Girard) -- Mimetic Crisis -- Méconnaissance -- Jesus Christ -- Scapegoat or Black Sheep? -- Chapter 3 Making a Jew into a Christian (William Shakespeare) -- Venice -- Lament -- Belmont -- Summary -- Chapter 4 There Should Be Time No Longer (D. H. Lawrence) -- Life in Motion -- "We Fucked a Flame into Being"6 -- A Book Unlike Any Other -- Duality of Human Nature -- A Sentence Ends in a Full Stop |
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The Democratic Jesus -- The Jews Messed Up First -- Symbols and Allegories -- Nothing New or True -- With Animals -- How Does He Know? -- The Politics of Excess -- The Truth about Fascism, the Truth of Fascism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 To Look Upon His Face and Yet Not Die (Jacob Taubes) -- Curriculum Vitae -- The Theology of Paul of Tarsus -- Marcion, Our Contemporary -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Ex oriente lux? (Joseph Roth, Primo Levi) -- The Shtetl -- The Wander -- The Soviet Men -- Ponary-The Base -- From Auschwitz to Turin -- Summary -- Chapter 7 Pilloried by Necessity (Jean Améry) |
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The Loss of Language -- Pain, Dying, Nakedness -- Old Age -- Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew -- Resentments -- Chapter 8 German Rubble (W. G. Sebald) -- Statistics -- Taboo -- The Right to Suffering -- Gloria victis, vae victoribus -- Summary -- Chapter 9 Long Live! (K. K. Baczyński) -- Chapter 10 The Living against the Dead (Czesław Miłosz) -- The Religious Apprehension of the World -- Californian Russianists -- Polish School of Contemporary Poetry -- The Right of the Living -- Chapter 11 The Child of War (Friedrich Nietzsche, Krzysztof Michalski) -- I -- Nihilism -- Child -- War |
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Transformation -- Death -- Love -- Truth -- The Eternal Recurrence of the Same -- II -- Gombrowicz -- Pain -- Anecdote -- Chapter 12 Plenty Coups and the End of the World (Jonathan Lear) -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Chapter 13 They Refugees (Hannah Arendt) -- Bios and zoe -- State of Exception -- A History Lesson from the Perspective of a Refugee -- A Lesson in the Present from the Perspective of an Autochthon -- Dziekański Case -- Apocalypse -- Map -- Slaughter -- Final Note -- Chapter 14 The Remainder of Christianity (Vasily Rozanov, Giorgio Agamben, Martin Heidegger) -- The Empty Promise |
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The Specter of God -- Ten Words -- The Remainder of the Aroma -- Coda -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons |
| Summary |
The book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world "after Jews." |
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Human beings -- Conduct of life
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Antisemitism.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Religious tolerance -- Judaism.
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Political theology.
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antisemitism.
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Antisemitism
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Political theology
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Religious tolerance -- Judaism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1839981962 |
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9781839981951 |
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1839981954 |
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9781839981968 |
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