9780801862618 - Shylock and the Jewish Question (Johns Hopkins Jewish Studies) von Yaffe, Martin D. (2 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. paperback, 8vo, x,210pp, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good condition. ISBN: 0801862612.

Baltimore, John Hopkins Univ. Press, 1999. XII,210 pp. As new. Paperback. Emphasizing that The Merchant of Venice is a work of political philosophy as well as literature, Yaffe raises the intriguing possibility that Shakespeare presents Shylock not as a typical Jew, but as a bad one. Though the book focuses on the Jewish question, it has larger implications for our thinking in a number of areas: the rise of liberal democracy, the development of religious toleration, the relation of church and state, and the interrelation of politics, economics, and religion--in short, a whole range of issues basic to the conception of modernity.