How the Neighbours Become Jews: The Political Construction of Strangeness in the Age Reflexive Modernity

Abstract

The author of this paper offers to us several considerations related with the modern condition of «strangeness» interpreted as uprooting with its bias generate the most negative emotions, hate and wrath, because the strangers who have fallen in a liminal nobody´s land situation can «be far away (culturally speaking) and extremely close (physically speaking) of any place or anybody» and at the same time they «don’t look like us» and for that reason we proceed to activate old marks such as the «naturalized we v. strange them» that could end mirroring the strange as hostis, enemy.