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Capitolo 2: La scuola boasiana di antropologia e il declino del darwinismo nelle scienze sociali

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Se… trattassimo Coming of Age in Samoa di Margaret Mead come utopia, non come etnografia, lo capiremmo meglio ed eviteremmo molte discussioni inutili. (Robin Fox 1989, 3)   Alcuni scrittori hanno commentato sui “cambiamenti radicali” verificatisi negli obiettivi e nei metodi delle scienze sociali in seguito all’ingresso degli ebrei in questi campi (Liebman 1973, 213; […]

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On Contemporary Opera and Wagner’s ‘Jewry in Music’

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This month marks the 165th anniversary of the publication of Richard Wagner’s landmark essay ‘Das Judenthum in der Musik.’ Almost right on cue the opera scene, particularly in Berlin, has recently played host to a series of episodes that would have the Old Sorcerer spinning in his grave. Back in June Kirill Petrenko, a Siberian-born […]

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Philip Weiss on Jewish Success

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Philip Weiss, ever (self-)conscious of the power of Jews in American society, has another meditation on the topic (“Jewish success– is it ever a story?). Once again, the larger point is that Jewish power is off limits for public discussion—a theme that goes back at least as far as Wilmot Robertson’s Dispossessed Majority in the […]

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Pariah to Messiah: The Engineered Apotheosis of Baruch Spinoza — A Postscript on the Acceptance of “Jewish Genius” by Non-Jews

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Go to Part 1. It’s interesting that the emphasis on Jewish identity and origins in the case of Spinoza is quite the opposite of that found among the intellectual movements discussed in The Culture of Critique, doubtless because the theories were promoted within a scientific framework in which ethnic interests and identifications would be seen as illegitimate.— […]

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Pariah to Messiah: The Engineered Apotheosis of Baruch Spinoza, Part 3 of 3

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Go to Part 1. The Apotheosis of Baruch Spinoza Influenced by the sentiments of their own people, the majority of Jewish academics have long held and advanced a view of Spinoza strikingly at odds with that held by non-Jewish academics. Over time, however, the internal intellectual consistency and dedication of a core of Jewish academics […]