On the Origins of the New Antisemitism
This shock at the elated reactions worldwide quickly became...
This shock at the elated reactions worldwide quickly became replaced by the flood of images from a destroyed Gaza and later by the despair at a war waged by the Israeli government with no end nor strategy, sowing disproportionate havoc and destruction. The Israelis who had been victims of crimes against humanity became perpetrators of the devastation of too many Palestinian lives and futures. Palestinians and Israelis have been relentless in their violence, while each was the victim of the other. These images and facts refused to coexist with each other: as in the optical illusion of the duck and the rabbit, when you see one figure, you cannot see the other. For many, the spectacle of Palestinian victims managed to erase their leaders’ insistent dedication to exterminating Jews and Israel. But look at Israelis as the heartrending victims of a vile massacre, and you could no longer be properly horrified at the destruction they wreaked in Gaza. And yet, we should precisely try to do what the eye and the moral mind have trouble doing: hold together conflicting facts and analyze them in their troubling moral complexity. We should tell this story by remembering that Israelis and Palestinians incessantly swap roles of victims and perpetrators.
This book approaches October 8th from the standpoint of the sociology of culture and asks why such a significant part of the global left dismissed, justified, or rejoiced in the massacres. It is written from the standpoint of a Zionist and left-wing Jew but aims to be an intellectual, cultural and emotional genealogy of an event which has left a profound mark on many Jews around the world
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Eva Illouz
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Explosive Emotions
English world rights (Princeton), Spanish world rights (Katz), Catalan (Edicions 62), Chinese simplex (Shanghai Insight Media), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Quina Editora), Arabic world rights (Page Seven), France (Gallimard), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Ten Have), Korea (Cheongmi), Japan (Misuzu), Romania (Trei), Greece (Patakis)
The Emotional Life of Populism
Throughout the world, democracy is under assault by various populist movements and ideologies. And throughout the world, the same enigma: why is it that political figures or governments, who have...
English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Katz), Arabic world rights (Page Seven), France (Premier Parallèle), Italy (Castelvecchi), Sweden (Daidalos), Poland (Narutowicz Institute), Romania (Idea), Turkey (Lejand), Israel (Van Leer Institute), Korea (Cheongmi)
What is Sexual Capital?
It is not nature that determines our ideas about sexuality, but society. Whereas it was religion that regulated sex in the past, today it is the economy. No wonder, then, that »sexual«...
English world rights (Polity), Chinese simplex rights (Ginkgo (Shanghai) Book Co. / Post Wave), Chinese complex rights (Faces Publications), France (Seuil), Sweden (Daidalos), Korea (HanulPlus), Japan (Keiso Shobo), Greece (Ekdoseis tou Eikostou Protou)
Spanish edition available through Herder, Italian edition available through Castelvecchi
The End of Love
Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people's lives – the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined to us, the feverish waiting for...
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Is it possible to be a Jewish Intellectual?
What is happening in a country where security is of such importance that a female physician is willing to take part in a conspiracy to commit murder because she is convinced that in doing so she...
Sweden (Daidalos)
Hard-Core Romance
English world rights (Chicago UP), Spanish world rights (Katz), France (Seuil), Italy (Mimesis), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Poland (PWN)
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Why Love Hurts
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Cold Intimacies
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