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
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About the Author

Donatella Di Cesare is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome.

Reviews

"This short and powerful book by Di Cesare not only tells the history and legacy of the Marranos – the crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal – but, far more importantly, traces the disquieting, undisclosed implications of a phenomenon that few have yet to grasp: the rise of modern identity defined as a twinned concept where there is no false self but no true self either."
André Aciman, author of Out of Egypt and Call Me By Your Name

"An engrossing and enlightening account of the prelude, enactment, and consequences of the Spanish Inquisition focusing on Jewish victims."
Jewish Tribune