{"product_id":"furio-jesi-the-blood-libel-the-trial-against-the-jews-of-damascus-metamorphosis-of-the-vampire-in-germany","title":"Furio Jesi: The Blood Libel: The Trial Against the Jews of Damascus; Metamorphosis of the Vampire in Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWirklichkeit, 2027, Paperback, 132 pages, 11.6 x 18.8\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Blood Libel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, written in 1973 by the Italian scholar of myth and radical critic Furio Jesi, explores the archival traces of the 1840 Damascus affair, an anti-Semitic accusation of ritual murder. We follow in detail how the death of a Catholic missionary monk in Ottoman Syria is transformed into a racist myth that depends on the figure of the “savage”—more precisely, on the paranoid projection of the Jew as a masked inner enemy, who, as Jesi writes, “has hypocritically and externally civilized himself—and who has thus been able to continue to satisfy his blood-thirsty instincts within the very fabric of 'civilized' societies.” This study is contrasted by a profound analysis of modernity’s fears articulated in the figure of the vampire that circulated through Germany’s nineteenth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60367969714560,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/614Dv0RlFtL._SY522.jpg?v=1794401993","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/furio-jesi-the-blood-libel-the-trial-against-the-jews-of-damascus-metamorphosis-of-the-vampire-in-germany","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}