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The lions' den : Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky /

In this lively intellectual history of the political Left, cultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent twentieth-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism, and then with Israel and its conflicts with the Arab world. Constructed as a series of interrelated por...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Linfield, Susie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A Double Grief, and a Hope; PART ONE: EUROPEANS; 1. Hannah Arendt: Left, Right, or Wrong?; 2. Arthur Koestler: The Zionist as Anti-Semite; PART TWO: SOCIALISTS; 3. Maxime Rodinson: Marxism, Zionism, and the Arab World; 4. Isaac Deutscher: A Very Jewish Jew; 5. Albert Memmi: Zionism as National Liberation; 6. Fred Halliday: The Journey of a '68er; PART THREE: AMERICANS; 7. I.F. Stone: The Limits of Isaiah; 8. Noam Chomsky: The Responsibility of Intellectuals; Conclusion: The Genius for Failure; Notes; Bibliography.