Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia (Paperback)

The apparent resurgence of hostility toward Jews has been a prominent theme in recent discussions of Europe; at the same time, the adversities faced by the continent's Muslim population have received increasing attention. In "Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia," Matti Bunzl offers a historical and cultural clarification of the key terms in these ongoing problems. Arguing against the common impulse to analogize anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, it instead offers a framework that locates the two phenomena in different projects of exclusion.
According to Bunzl, anti-Semitism was invented in the late nineteenth century to police the ethnically pure nation-state. Islamophobia, by contrast, is a phenomenon of the present, marshaled to safeguard a supranational Europe. With the declining importance of the nation-state, traditional anti-Semitism has run its historical course, while Islamophobia threatens to become the defining condition of the new, unified Europe. By ridding us of misapprehensions, "Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia" enables us to see these forces anew.

General

Imprint:	Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2007
First published:	September 2007
Authors:	Matti Bunzl
Dimensions:	179 x 120 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-0-9761475-8-9
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-9761475-8-0
Barcode:	9780976147589

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