Abstract

Chapter one articulates the signifiers of hatred as a preliminary ground to understanding hatred as ideology. It points at the difference between rage and hatred and underscores those linguistic codes which constitute the ideology of hatred. These layers of meanings are related to such signifiers as 'enmity', 'abjection' and 'animality' that are used openly or covertly but always reverberate with the word 'hatred.' The discourse of hatred always addresses a particular enemy, uses specific names of animals (and not others), and forms of abjection as a weapon against the other.

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