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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821914603321

Autore

Marty Éric

Titolo

Radical French thought and the return of the "Jewish Question" / / Éric Marty ; translated by Alan Astro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana ; ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : , : Indiana University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-253-01684-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 p.)

Collana

Studies in Antisemitism

Disciplina

305.8924044

Soggetti

Antisemitism - France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / by Bruno Chaouat -- To my American readers -- Jean Genet's anxiety in the face of the good -- Alain Badiou : the future of a denial -- Saint Paul among the moderns : symbolic universal or mimetic universal? history and metahistory -- On Giorgio Agamben's State of exception : Guantánamo and Auschwitz -- Foucault, Deleuze, the Jews, and Israel.

Sommario/riassunto

For English-speaking readers, this book serves as an introduction to an important French intellectual whose work, especially on the issues of antisemitism and anti-Zionism, runs counter to the hostility shown toward Jews by some representatives of contemporary critical theory. It presents for the first time in English five essays by Éric Marty, previously published in France, with a new preface by the author addressed to his American readers. The focus of these essays is the debate in France and elsewhere in Europe concerning the "Jew." The first essay on Jean Genet, one of postwar France's most important literary figures, investigates the nature of Genet's virulent antisemitism and hatred of Israel and its significance for an understanding of contemporary phenomena. The curious reappearance of St. Paul in theological and political discourse is discussed in another essay, which describes and analyses the interest that secular writers of the far left have shown in Paul's "universalism" placed over and against Jewish or Israeli particularism. The remaining essays are more polemical in



nature and confront the anti-Israeli attacks by Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze.