Bibliograph

Marranos, the other of the other, Donatella Di Cesare ; translated by David Broder

Type

Label

Marranos, the other of the other, Donatella Di Cesare ; translated by David Broder

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Marranos

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1130671919

Responsibility statement

Donatella Di Cesare ; translated by David Broder

Sub title

the other of the other

Summary

Marranos were Spanish or Portuguese Jews living in the Iberian Peninsula who converted to Christianity to avoid being massacred or forced to flee following the expulsion of Jews and Muslims from Spain in 1391 but they continued to practice Judaism in secret. They outwardly embraced Catholicism but preserved Judaism in their hearts. While the Marranos are commonly associated with the persecution of Jews at the time of the Spanish Inquisition, Donatella Di Cesare sees the Marranos as the quintessential figure of the modern condition: the Marranos were not just those that modernity has cast out as the ‘other’, but were those ‘others’ who were forced to disavow their beliefs and conceal themselves. They were ‘the other’s other’, the product of a double exclusion, condemned to a life of existential duplicity with no way out, spurned by both Catholics and Jews and unable fully to belong to either community. But this double life of the Marrano turned out also to be a secret source of strength. Doubly estranged, with no possibility of redemption, the Marrano was the protagonist not only of an external emigration but also of an internal migration: the exploration of the inner territory of the self and a predisposition towards radical thinking that would become hallmarks of modernity.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The Last Jews: to Begin. Anarchiveable. Romantic heroes or Cowardly Renegades? Esther, and another Sovereignty. Convert and Flee! When it All Began. Between Silence and Nostalgia. ‘New Christians’? The Other of the Other. An Existential Duplicity The Discovery of the Self. Water and Blood. From Toledo to Nuremberg. The Great Purge. Flight and Withdrawal. The Theology of the Marranos. Teresa d’Ávila and the Interior Castle. ‘Válete por ti!’ An Insult and its Fantastic History. The Planetary. Aarchipelago and the Anarchic Nation. The ‘New Jews’, between Livorno and Amsterdam. Messianic Sparks. Spinoza, Democracy, the Freedom of the Secret The Political Laboratory of Modernity. Marranism in the Third Reich. The Counter-History of the Defeated and the Revenge of the Marranos. ‘The Marrano is a Spectre I love’ The Secret of Remembrance – the Recollection of the Secret. To find out more

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