{"product_id":"jews-out-of-the-question","title":"Jews Out of the Question","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative study of opposition to anti-Semitism in contemporary political philosophy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn post-Holocaust philosophy, anti-Semitism has come to be seen as a paradigmatic political and ideological evil. \u003ci\u003eJews Out of the Question\u003c\/i\u003e examines the role that opposition to anti-Semitism has played in shaping contemporary political philosophy. Elad Lapidot argues that post-Holocaust philosophy identifies the fundamental, epistemological evil of anti-Semitic thought not in thinking \u003ci\u003eagainst\u003c\/i\u003e Jews, but in thinking \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e Jews. In other words, what philosophy denounces as anti-Semitic is the figure of \"the Jew\" in thought. Lapidot reveals how, paradoxically, opposition to anti-Semitism has generated a rejection of Jewish thought in post-Holocaust philosophy. Through critical readings of political philosophers such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Sartre, Arendt, Badiou, and Nancy, the book contends that by rejecting Jewish thought, the opposition to anti-Semitism comes dangerously close to anti-Semitism itself, and at work in this rejection, is a problematic understanding of the relations between politics and thought-a troubling political epistemology. Lapidot's critique of this political epistemology is the book's ultimate aim.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54409957638488,"sku":"9781438480442","price":36.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781438480442.jpg?v=1777895111","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/jews-out-of-the-question","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}