The French Enlightenment and the Jews: The Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism

ISBN-13: 9780231073851 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 420 str.

Arthur Hertzberg

Opis

Hertzberg develops his daring thesis that the modern, secular, anti-Semitism was fashioned not as a reaction to the Enlightenment and the Revolution, but within the Enlightenment and Revolution themselves. He finds that modern anti-Semitism owes less to Christian theological mentality than to doctrinaire libertarianism of figures such as Voltaire, d'Holbach, Diderot, and Marat.