This book works to uncover the logic of hatred, to understand how
this affect manifests itself historically in persecution and terror
apparatuses. More than a historical genealogy of persecution, The
Logic of Hatred shows what phenomenology can offer to historical
understanding. Focusing on the witch-hunts waged in the fifteenth
through seventeenth centuries, the first part of the book analyzes
the techniques instigators used to designate and annihilate their
targets: the search for diabolical stigma, the confession of
“truth” extracted by torture, the constitution of an absolute
Enemy through the suggestion of conspiracy, of a world turned
upside-down, or the figure of Satan. Rogozinski locates one of the
origins of the witch-hunt in the anguish that popular uprisings
arouse in dominant classes. The second part of the book extends the
investigation to related phenomena, such as the extermination of
lepers in the Middle Ages and the Reign of Terror during the French
Revolution. By studying these historical experiences and marking
their differences and similarities, this book shows the passage
from exclusion to persecution and how revolts of the oppressed can
let themselves be transformed and captured by persecutory politics.
The analyses presented thus shed light on conspiracy theory and the
terror apparatuses of our time.
General
Imprint: |
Fordham University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Jacob Rogozinski
|
Translators: |
Sepehr Razavi
|
Afterword by: |
Carlo Ginzburg
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5315-0536-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5315-0536-8 |
Barcode: |
9781531505363 |
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