Critical Theory and the Critique of Antisemitism

Marcel Stoetzler is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Bangor University, UK. His publications include The State, the Nation and the Jews: Liberalism and the Antisemitism Dispute in Bismarck’s Germany (2008) and the edited volume Antisemitism and the Constitution of Sociology (2014).

Contents
List of contributors
Introduction: Critical Theory’s Critique of Antisemitism, Marcel Stoetzler (Bangor University, UK)

Part I: Elements
1. The Critical Theory of Antisemitism and the Limits of Enlightenment, Jordi Maiso (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
2. Antisemitism in the British ‘New Liberalism’ Movement: J. A. Hobson on Capitalism and Imperialism, Matthew Bolton (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
3. Antisemitism and the Critique of Society as Economic Object, Werner Bonefeld (University of York, UK)
4. Jews and other ‘others’: Identity and constellation in intersectional and critical theory Christine Achinger (University of Warwick, UK)
5. Antisemitism, Anti-capitalism, Community: (Con)fusing Reft and Light, Marcel Stoetzler (Bangor University, UK)

Part II: Extensions
6. ‘Pathic’ Identification in Populist Movements: The Spectre of Antisemitism in Right and Left Protest, Patrick Ahern (University of Dayton, USA)
7. Ancient Aliens Down to Earth: Conspiracy Theories, Antisemitism and ‘Anonymous Authority’, Joan Braune (Gonzaga University, USA)
8. Antisemitism, Antiblackness and the Nation in the Storming of the US Capitol, Christopher D. Wright (Independent Scholar, USA)
9. Antisemitism and Racism ‘After Auschwitz’: Adorno on the ‘Hellish Unity’ of ‘Permanent Catastrophe’, Jonathon Catlin (Princeton University, USA)
10. Antisemitism, Center-Periphery Dynamics and Anti-Zionism in Poland Today, Anna Zawadzka (Institute of Slavic Studies, Poland)
11. Labour, Antisemitism and the Critique of Political Economy Matthew Bolton (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) and Frederick Harry Pitts (University of Bristol, UK)

Index