- Paperback: 544 pages
- Publisher: Authorhouse (Aug 20 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0759672229
- ISBN-13: 978-0759672222
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 794 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #216,957 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
MacDonald provides a theoretical analysis and review of data on the widespread tendency among certain highly influential, Jewish-dominated intellectual movements to develop radical critiques of gentile culture that are compatible with the continuity of Jewish identification. Particular attention is paid to Boasian anthropology, psychoanalysis, leftist political ideology and behavior, the Frankfurt School of Social Research, and the efforts to influence United States immigration policy.
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About the Author
KEVIN MACDONALD is Professor of Psychology, California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of numerous works in evolutionary biology, including A People that Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (Praeger, 1994) and Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism (Praeger, 1998).
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Not wholly convincing, but demands to be read,
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This review is from: The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements (Paperback)
This is a puzzler. The research is staggering, the sheer accumulation of data impressive, the theory similar to what the great Solzhenitsyn has argued for years; and yet with <I>The Culture of Critique</I> - as with its predecessors - I suspect you really have to be a thoroughgoing sociobiologist to buy the whole package. Other reviewers have already noted the oddity that Jewish opposition to egalitarianism, black supremacism, etc., from such commentators as Michael Levin (or, before him, Mises and Rothbard) has been neglected in Kevin MacDonald's analysis. The author's repeated assumption that Christianity can be discussed primarily, if not exclusively, as a sociobiological imperative is also less than wholly convincing (what if, dread thought, Christianity has survived because it happens to be true?). It's an unusual approach which in discussing the 19th century emphasizes Wagner's outbursts on the Jews but says nothing of Mendelssohn, surely the ne plus ultra of the age's Jewish-turned-Christian intellectual achievement (and a man very much on Wagner's own mind). Still, if you have the slightest interest in the history of ideas, you <I>must</I> read this book, and indeed its predecessors. MacDonald's devastating demolition of Freudianism and, in particular, of Adornoism belongs within every literate person's mental furniture.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Five stars for courage!,
By Le chouan (Corpus Christianum) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements (Paperback)
I do not feel qualified to judge the academic merits of Professor Kevin MacDonald's book; however, I gladly give him five stars for sheer courage. Writing about Jewish subjects is nowadays a very risky business unless one limits himself to the conventional pietisms and platitudes. Prof. MacDonald certainly doesn't do that. Predictably enough, his works (just like the books of Albert S. Lindemann on the real causes of "antisemitism"), triggered the usual histeria and howls of rage. All the more reason to read them!
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EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY,
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This review is from: The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements (Paperback)
After re-reading this book, it occurs to me that the author really IS talking about an evolutionary strategy. Most of the comments here don't get past the details of the strategy, probably because they are shocking, given the amount of propaganda devoted to burying them. The jews have been willing to push the envelope in the west and have take the fall-out--severe as it has sometimes been--as a group evolutionary strategy. When they have triggered retaliation in one place or another, it hasn't been possible to get all of them, because they're scattered, and they have kept evolving in their strategies to dominate and destroy what doesn't serve their ethnocentric interests. Christianity (leaving off the old testament) has been diametrically opposed to this strategy. That is perhaps why it has been hated so much from the get-go.
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