Format:
viii, 119 Seiten
ISBN:
9781509542048
,
9781509542031
Uniform Title:
Marrani
Content:
"Marranos were Spanish or Portuguese Jews who converted to Christianity at the time of the Spanish Inquisition to avoid being massacred or forced to flee but who continued to practise Judaism in secret. They were persecuted by the first racist blood laws but the water of forced baptism was not enough to make them assimilate. Donatella Di Cesare sees the marranos as the quintessential figures of the modern condition: the marranos were not just those whom modernity cast out as the ‘other’, but were those ‘others’ who were forced to disavow their beliefs and conceal themselves. They became ‘the other of the other’, doubly excluded, condemned to a life of existential duplicity with no way out, spurned by both Catholics and Jews and unable to belong fully to either community. But this double life of the marranos turned out to be a secret source of strength. Doubly estranged, with no possibility of redemption, the marranos became modernity’s first true radicals. Dissidents out of necessity, they inaugurated modernity with their ambivalence and their split self. And their story is not over. By treating the history of the marranos as a prism through which to grasp the defining features of modernity, this highly original book will be of interest to a wide readership."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781509542055
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781509543564
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Di Cesare, Donatella, 1956 - Marranos Newark : Polity Press, 2020 ISBN 9781509543564
Language:
English
Keywords:
Marranen
Author information:
Di Cesare, Donatella 1956-
