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The thought remolding campaign of the Chinese communist party-state
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ISBN: 9089644105 9048515912 1283698323 Year: 2012 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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This authoritative work on the Chinese Communist party's practices of reeducation and indoctrination, supersedes all previous works by bringing into account recent events. Hu Ping has provided a rich and rigorous study based not only in historical research and numerous compelling case studies of Chinese intellectuals, but also in a first person account of his own experience of Maoist thought remolding. 'The Thought Remolding Campaign of the Chinese Communist Party-State' is an important history not only of the reeducation programs, but of the interrogation processes of the Party, and the strategies of either evasion or rebellion that released prisoners adopted.


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The paranoid apocalypse
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ISBN: 0814748937 0814749453 9780814749456 9780814748930 9780814748923 0814748929 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York New York University Press

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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in Russia around 1905, claimed to be the captured secret protocols from the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897 describing a plan by the Jewish people to achieve global domination. While the document has been proven to be fake, much of it plagiarized from satirical anti-Semitic texts, it had a major impact throughout Europe during the first half of the 20th century, particularly in Germany. After World War II, the text was further denounced. Anyone who referred to it as a genuine document was seen as an ignorant hate-monger.Yet there is abundant evidence that The Protocols is resurfacing in many places. The Paranoid Apocalypse re-examines the text’s popularity, investigating why it has persisted, as well as larger questions about the success of conspiracy theories even in the face of claims that they are blatantly counterfactual and irrational. It considers the medieval pre-history of The Protocols, the conditions of its success in the era of early twentieth-century secular modernity, and its post-Holocaust avatars, from the Muslim world to Walmart and Left-wing anti-American radicalism. Contributors argue that the key to The Protocols’ longevity is an apocalyptic paranoia that lays the groundwork not only for the myth’s popularity, but for its implementation as a vehicle for genocide and other brutal acts.The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in Russia around 1905, claimed to be the captured secret protocols from the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897 describing a plan by the Jewish people to achieve global domination. While the document has been proven to be fake, much of it plagiarized from satirical anti-Semitic texts, it had a major impact throughout Europe during the first half of the 20th century, particularly in Germany. After World War II, the text was further denounced. Anyone who referred to it as a genuine document was seen as an ignorant hate-monger.Yet there is abundant evidence that The Protocols is resurfacing in many places. The Paranoid Apocalypse re-examines the text’s popularity, investigating why it has persisted, as well as larger questions about the success of conspiracy theories even in the face of claims that they are blatantly counterfactual and irrational. It considers the medieval pre-history of The Protocols, the conditions of its success in the era of early twentieth-century secular modernity, and its post-Holocaust avatars, from the Muslim world to Walmart and Left-wing anti-American radicalism. Contributors argue that the key to The Protocols’ longevity is an apocalyptic paranoia that lays the groundwork not only for the myth’s popularity, but for its implementation as a vehicle for genocide and other brutal acts.


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On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred
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ISBN: 1280494204 9786613589439 1400841887 9781400841882 9780691119229 0691119228 9781280494208 Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Today, the term "Jewish self-hatred" often denotes a treasonous brand of Jewish self-loathing, and is frequently used as a smear, such as when it is applied to politically moderate Jews who are critical of Israel. In On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred, Paul Reitter demonstrates that the concept of Jewish self-hatred once had decidedly positive connotations. He traces the genesis of the term to Anton Kuh, a Viennese-Jewish journalist who coined it in the aftermath of World War I, and shows how the German-Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing came, in 1930, to write a book that popularized "Jewish self-hatred." Reitter contends that, as Kuh and Lessing used it, the concept of Jewish self-hatred described a complex and possibly redemptive way of being Jewish. Paradoxically, Jews could show the world how to get past the blight of self-hatred only by embracing their own, singularly advanced self-critical tendencies--their "Jewish self-hatred.? Provocative and elegantly argued, On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred challenges widely held notions about the history and meaning of this idea, and explains why its history is so badly misrepresented today.

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Self-hate (Psychology) --- Antisemitism --- Self-hatred (Psychology) --- Hate --- Self-perception --- Psychological aspects. --- Adage. --- Adolf Loos. --- Afrikan Spir. --- Alfred Kerr. --- Anti-Zionism. --- Anti-imperialism. --- Anti-nationalism. --- Antisemitism (authors). --- Antisemitism. --- Anxiety of influence. --- Bildung. --- Bildungsroman. --- Boris Groys. --- Buddenbrooks. --- Consciousness. --- Counter-revolutionary. --- Cultural pessimism. --- Defamation. --- Deportation. --- Edmund Husserl. --- Erudition. --- Erving Goffman. --- Feuilleton. --- Franz Kafka. --- Franz Werfel. --- Fritz Haarmann. --- German Forest. --- German nationalism. --- Germans. --- Gershom Scholem. --- Gustav Wyneken. --- Hans Gross. --- Hans Mayer. --- Hatred. --- Heinrich Heine. --- Heinrich von Kleist. --- Highbrow. --- His Family. --- Houston Stewart Chamberlain. --- Hugo Bettauer. --- Humiliation. --- Hypocrisy. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jakob Wassermann. --- Jewish assimilation. --- Jewish guilt. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Karl Kraus (writer). --- Kurt Tucholsky. --- Lecture. --- Lessing. --- Ludwig Klages. --- Ludwig Wittgenstein. --- Martin Buber. --- Modern Paganism. --- Modernity. --- Moses Mendelssohn. --- Narrative. --- Novelist. --- Oedipus complex. --- On the Jewish Question. --- Oppression. --- Oswald Spengler. --- Otto Gross. --- Otto Weininger. --- Pacifism. --- Paul Heyse. --- Persecution. --- Pessimism. --- Philosophy. --- Pity. --- Pogrom. --- Polemic. --- Prejudice. --- Prostitution. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Rainer Maria Rilke. --- Ridicule. --- Rudolf Steiner. --- Satire. --- Self-consciousness. --- Self-criticism. --- Self-hating Jew. --- Self-hatred. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- The Decline of the West. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- The Pity of It All. --- Theodor Fritsch. --- Theodor Lessing. --- Theodor. --- Thomas Mann. --- Thought. --- Vladimir Nabokov. --- Walter Benjamin. --- Writing. --- Zionism. --- Jews --- History. --- Lessing, Theodor,

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