englischAnyone who visits Berlin’s Olympic Park will inevitably stumble across the continued effects of the site's Nazi monumentality—and also its largely unbroken tradition of ethnic and anti-Semitic monumentality. The criticism of this is diverse, but so far rather loosely interwoven: Where does [...]

englischThis volume is dedicated to the reconstruction of antisemitic consciousness and the depiction of the modifications of antisemitic resentment in order to sound out conditions and opportunities for a contemporary critique of antisemitism. Based on Adorno's categorical imperative, the volume [...]

englischThis anthology addresses the question of how anti-Semitism appears and is expressed in modern music. As a ‘negative guiding idea of modernity’, anti-Semitism can be found in all musical genres and is conveyed on different levels, be it through song lyrics, album covers, music videos, stage [...]

Die moderne Antimoderne hat in Deutschland eine lange Geschichte. Antisemitismus, Anti-Amerikanismus und verschiedene Rassismen gehören zu ihren wirkmächtigsten Traditionsbeständen.Dieses Buch redet ausdrücklich nicht einer Krise der Demokratie selbst in der Bundesrepublik das Wort. Es versammelt [...]

englischPolitical reactions to right-wing extremism are a seismograph for a society’s democratic culture. A glance at Austria suggests that far-right politics is not limited to the so-called fringe but can actually be found at the centre of society. Therefore, the debate over that issue does not [...]

englischIn the last 20 years, there have been countless public discussions about anti-Semitism. At the same time, anti-Semitism has become increasingly aggressive and violent, with right-wing and Islamist groups in particular claiming responsibility for anti-Semitic violence. This book presents the [...]

englischIn 2012, a vehement controversy about the ritual circumcision of male infants and boys developed in Germany. Although the debate impacted massively on German Jews, research on anti-Semitism has left the topic largely unstudied. This study focuses on the interdisciplinary controversy [...]

englischThis volume addresses the question of how Israel-related anti-Semitism is linguistically construed from the online comment area of the quality press. The book represents a corpus linguistic analysis of more than 6,000 readers’ comments from the websites of the left-liberal newspapers ‘Die [...]

englischThe contributions in this volume examine the policies and ideologies of the political parties “Alternative für Deutschland” and “Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs” against the backdrop of the debate on asylum, refugees and Islam in the countries in which National Socialism rose to power in [...]

(Black) Metal rezipiert eine Bricolage aus Satanismus, (nord-)germanischen Mythen, völkischer Weltanschauung und Nietzsches Philosophie des „Übermenschen“. Dabei lassen sich im Umgang mit dem altnordischen Mythos unterschiedliche Muster erkennen. Der (scheinbar) intentionslosen, ›trivialen‹ [...]