Antisemitism and the left: On the return of the Jewish question

The Left Has A Strong Tradition Of Confronting Racism, But Its Attitude To Antisemitism Has Often Been Problematic, Sometimes Mirroring The Prejudice It Should Oppose. To Explain This Phenomenon, Robert Fine And Philip Spencer Draw Our Attention To The Presence Within The Left Of The 'jewish Question'--a Way Of Thinking That Conceptually Underpins Modern Antisemitism And Converts It Into The Responsibility Of Jews Themselves. They Explore The Corrosive Influence The Jewish Question Has Had On The Radical Tradition--from The Enlightenment Through Marxism To Contemporary Critical Theory--but Also The Countervailing Critiques Found Within That Same Tradition. Re-evaluating Writing By Mendelssohn, Marx, Luxemburg, Adorno, Horkheimer, Arendt And Habermas, Among Others, Fine And Spencer Develop A Dialectical Approach That Offers A Rich Analysis Of The Left's Deply Troubled Relationship With Antisemitism. --back Cover. Introduction: Universalism And The Jewish Question -- Struggles Within Enlightenment : Jewish Emancipation And The Jewish Question -- Marx's Defence Of Jewish Emancipation And Critique Of The Jewish Question -- Antisemitism, Critical Theory And The Ambivalence Of Marxism -- Political Life In An Antisemitism World : Hannah Arendt's Jewish Writings -- The Jewish Question After The Holocaust : Jurgen Habermas And The European Left -- The Return Of The Jewish Question And The Double Life Of Israel. Robert Fine And Philip Spencer. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.