IT’S G-D’S BLOODY RULE, MA by Thomas J. Ferraro

“…This essay argues that Daniel’s “trouble breathing” is a function of the utter and unvanquishable co-determination of the public and the private, household and nation-state, the socialist dream of equity and the ethical obligations of Judaism; that the interpretive strategies of Marx and Freud deliver superb insight into the over-wrought, over-determined family dramas of McCarthy-era Anti-Semitism and Abbie Hoffman’s Radical New Left; but that epistemological insight, even if it is as effectively domestic as it is socio-political, doesn’t mean release from ontological suffocation, especially not for Daniel.  …”
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