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Newsletter Nr. 1.016
Amsterdam, November 9th, 2022


CULTURAL CRITICISM AND ANTISEMITISM - A Brief Response to Corbett - ELLIOT BENJAMIN

Reading Joe Corbett's essay "Integral Cultural Criticism: A Genealogy of Anti-Semitism" [1] stirred up a hornet's nest of anxiety in me and it obviously has something to do with the fact that I am Jewish. I can understand intellectually where Corbett is coming from, as in his comments dialogue with Mark Foreman he defended his essay by saying that all groups should be open to cultural criticism [1]. But I believe there are far-reaching negative consequences from this kind of essay; i.e., it is not just an intellectual exercise in self-reflection of one's cultural identity.

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