{"product_id":"the-blood-libel-furio-jesi","title":"The Blood Libel - Furio Jesi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Blood Libel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\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 “savage”—more precisely, on the paranoid projection of the Jew as a masked inner enemy, who, as Jesi writes, “has hypocritically and externally civilized himself—and who has thus been able to continue to satisfy his blood-thirsty instincts within the very fabric of 'civilized' societies.” This study is contrasted by a profound analysis of modernity’s fears articulated in the figure of the vampire that circulated through Germany’s nineteenth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten amidst the criminalization campaigns by the Italian state against anarchists and other “inner enemies,” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Blood Libel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e deploys Jesi’s conception of the “mythological machine” to anatomize the multiple entanglements of myth with the politics of exclusion and domination. A heterodox and uniquely incisive model of ideology critique, Jesi’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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wirklichkeit Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58772734083416,"sku":"44117","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0726\/7500\/0664\/files\/44117-The-Blood-Libel_Furio-Jesi-1.jpg?v=1791962004","url":"https:\/\/doyoureadme.de\/products\/the-blood-libel-furio-jesi","provider":"do you read me?!","version":"1.0","type":"link"}