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The Marrano Way: Between Betrayal and Innovation (Issn, 19) by Dennis Baert; Agata Bielik-Robson; Sergey Dolgopolski; Aleksandr Gaisin; Urszula Idziak-Smoczyńska; Elad Lapidot; Antoine Levy; Adam Lipszyc; Vivian Liska; Libera Pisano is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<P>The Marrano phenomenon is a still unexplored element of Western culture: the presence of the borderline Jewish identity which avoids clear-cut cultural and religious attribution and – precisely as such – prefigures the advent of the typically modern "free-oscillating" subjectivity. Yet, the aim of the book is not a historical study of the Marranos (or <EM>conversos</EM>), who were forced to convert to Christianity, but were suspected of retaining their Judaism "undercover." The book rather applies the "Marrano metaphor" to explore the fruitful area of mixture and cross-over which allowed modern thinkers, writers and artists of the Jewish origin to enter the realm of universal communication – without, at the same time, making them relinquish their Jewishness which they subsequently developed as a "hidden tradition." The book poses and then attempts to prove the "Marrano hypothesis," according to which modern subjectivity derives, to paraphrase Cohen, "out of the sources of the hidden Judaism": modernity begins not with the Cartesian abstract <EM>ego</EM>, but with the rich self-reflexive self of Michel de Montaigne who wrestled with his own <EM>marranismo</EM> in a manner that so

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Author

Dennis Baert; Agata Bielik-Robson; Sergey Dolgopolski; Aleksandr Gaisin; Urszula Idziak-Smoczyńska; Elad Lapidot; Antoine Levy; Adam Lipszyc; Vivian Liska; Libera Pisano

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110768275

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Humanities