The Logic of Hatred

From Witch Hunts to the Terror

Jacob Rogozinski, Sepehr Razavi, Carlo Ginzburg

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Fordham University Press
06 February 2024

European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Phenomenology & Existentialism

This book works to uncover the logic of hatred, to understand how this affect manifests itself historically in persecution and terror apparatuses. More than a historical genealogy of persecution, The Logic of Hatred shows what phenomenology can offer to historical understanding. Focusing on the witch-hunts waged in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, the first part of the book analyzes the techniques instigators used to designate and annihilate their targets: the search for diabolical stigma, the confession of ""truth"" extracted by torture, the constitution of an absolute Enemy through the suggestion of conspiracy, of a world turned upside-down, or the figure of Satan.

Rogozinski locates one of the origins of the witch-hunt in the anguish that popular uprisings arouse in dominant classes. The second part of the book extends the investigation to related phenomena, such as the extermination of lepers in the Middle Ages and the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. By studying these historical experiences and marking their differences and similarities, this book shows the passage from exclusion to persecution and how revolts of the oppressed can let themselves be transformed and captured by persecutory politics. The analyses presented thus shed light on conspiracy theory and the terror apparatuses of our time.

By: Jacob Rogozinski
Afterword by: Carlo Ginzburg
Translated by: Sepehr Razavi
Imprint: Fordham University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 572g
ISBN: 9781531505356
ISBN 10: 153150535X
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 06 February 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Carlo Ginzburg (Afterword By) Carlo Ginzburg is Professor Emeritus of History at UCLA. His books include The Cheese and the Worms and, most recently, The Soul of Brutes. Jacob Rogozinski (Author) Jacob Rogozinski is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Strasbourg. He is the author of The Ego and the Flesh: An Introduction to Egoanalysis. Sepehr Razavi (Translator) Sepehr Razavi is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

Reviews for The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the Terror

"""A searingly erudite genealogy of hatred, pulled off with equal amounts of historical and philosophical sophistication. Given Rogozinski's attention to the changing faces of hate, and the many ways in which the inquest and the test, let alone torture and persecution, are mobilized in its service, the book's resonances today are potent.""---Perry Zurn, American University ""Rogozinski is enviably well- and widely-read, and his insights are remarkable.""---Walter Stephens, Johns Hopkins University"