TY - BOOK ID - 85644660 TI - Anti-semitism and its metaphysical origins PY - 2015 SN - 1316255131 1316234320 1316236218 1316253236 131624945X 1316247554 1316251349 1139629301 1107040744 110764495X 9781139629300 9781316247556 9781316251348 9781107040748 9781107644953 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Antisemitism. KW - Antisemitism KW - Anti-Jewish attitudes KW - Anti-Semitism KW - Ethnic relations KW - Prejudices KW - Philosemitism KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85644660 AB - This book articulates a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of Jew hatred as a metaphysical aspect of the human soul. Proceeding from the Jewish thinking that the anti-Semites oppose, David Patterson argues that anti-Semitism arises from the most ancient of temptations, the temptation to be as God, and thus to flee from an absolute accountability to and for the other human being. ER -