{"product_id":"the-blood-libel-the-trial-against-the-jews-of-damascus-metamorphosis-of-the-vampire-in-germany","title":"The Blood Libel: The Trial Against the Jews of Damascus; Metamorphosis of the Vampire in Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePowerful insight into some of the deeper determinants of Western political rationality and its stigmatizing, inferiorizing, and racializing dynamics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Blood Libel\u003c\/i\u003e, written in 1973 by the Italian scholar of myth and radical critic Furio Jesi, explores the archival traces of the 1840 Damascus affair, an anti-Semitic accusation of ritual murder. We follow in detail how the death of a Catholic missionary monk in Ottoman Syria is transformed into a racist myth that depends on the figure of the \u0026amp;ldquo;savage\u0026amp;rdquo;\u0026amp;mdash;more precisely, on the paranoid projection of the Jew as a masked inner enemy, who, as Jesi writes, \u0026amp;ldquo;has hypocritically and externally civilized himself\u0026amp;mdash;and who has thus been able to continue to satisfy his blood-thirsty instincts within the very fabric of 'civilized' societies.\u0026amp;rdquo; This study is contrasted by a profound analysis of modernity\u0026amp;rsquo;s fears articulated in the figure of the vampire that circulated through Germany\u0026amp;rsquo;s nineteenth century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten amidst the criminalization campaigns by the Italian state against anarchists and other \u0026amp;ldquo;inner enemies,\u0026amp;rdquo; \u003ci\u003eThe Blood Libel\u003c\/i\u003e deploys Jesi\u0026amp;rsquo;s conception of the \u0026amp;ldquo;mythological machine\u0026amp;rdquo; to anatomize the multiple entanglements of myth with the politics of exclusion and domination. A heterodox and uniquely incisive model of ideology critique, Jesi\u0026amp;rsquo;s work offers us a powerful insight into some of the deeper determinants of Western political rationality and its stigmatizing, inferiorizing, and racializing dynamics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback","offer_id":49731118006499,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9783948200237","price":128.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh-mo\/products\/the-blood-libel-the-trial-against-the-jews-of-damascus-metamorphosis-of-the-vampire-in-germany","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}