 In Ansermet's book, "Les fondements de la musique dans la conscience humaine" (1961), he sought to prove, using Husserlian phenomenology and partly his own mathematical studies, that Schoenberg's idiom was false and irrational.He labeled it a "Jewish idea" and went on to say that "the Jew is a "me" who speaks as though he were an "I"," that the Jew "suffers from thoughts doubly misformed", thus making him "suitable for the handling of money", and sums up with the statement that "historic creation of Western music" would have developed just as well "without the Jew".Ansermet's reputation suffered after the war because of his collaboration with the Nazis and he was boycotted in the new state of Israel.