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Although the influence of psychologist Alfred Adler on his thought is undeniable, Rosenbaum's multidisciplinary works are difficult to link up to any prior school of thought. Most of them are meant to put modes of comparison into historical perspective. ''The sacred order'' (L'ordre sacré) questions the importance of hierarchical images (levels of thought, strata of Being, scales of virtue,...) in the history of western philosophy. Rosenbaum argues that stratification is the prevailing mode of comparison in antique philosophy, but the decline of hierarchical images during the european Renaissance is misleading, as they have been surviving in more discrete ways ever since. ''The fear of inferiority'' (La peur de l'infériorité) investigates the historical changes in procedures of social comparison, highlighting the peculiarities of the contemporary system of "overcomparison". Through the expectation of success, the intensification of envy and the invasion of measures, it is argued, subjects of western societies are constantly comparing to each other and "prone to feelings of inferiority". In ''Antisemitism'', Rosenbaum tries to show how this permanent and ubiquitous social jealousy frames the modern forms of antisemitism. BIBLIOGRAPHY 2006 : ''Antisemitism''. {Link without Title} . Paris: Bréal 2005 : ''The fear of inferiority'' peur de l'infériorité. Aperçus sur le régime moderne de la comparaison sociale . Paris: L'Harmattan. 2003 : ''Imaginary gazes''. imaginaires. Essais préliminaires à une écologie visuelle. Paris: L'Harmattan 1999 : ''The sacred order''. sacré. Les représentations hiérarchiques en philosophie. Paris : Desclée de Brouwer. |
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