03302nam 22005052 450 991015944160332120170606160620.01-78694-409-X1-78138-121-6(CKB)3710000001018980(UkCbUP)CR9781781381212(MiAaPQ)EBC4779113(StDuBDS)EDZ0001718595(EXLCZ)99371000000101898020170307d2016|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIs theory good for the Jews? French thought and the challenge of the new antisemitism /Bruno Chaouat[electronic resource]Liverpool :Liverpool University Press,2016.1 online resource (xxv, 262 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Contemporary French and francophone cultures ;43Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017).1-78962-049-X 1-78138-334-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Prologue: A Farewell to Theory; Introduction: Is Theory Good for the Jews?; 1 Specters of Heidegger; 2 The Moralistic Turn: Radical Social Critique, Literary Terror, and Antisemitism after Toulouse; 3 Dangerous Parallels: The Holocaust, the Colonial Turn, and the New Antisemitism; 4 Theory's Operation Shylock; Divertimento; Part I: Antisemitism Denial; Intermezzo: Have French Jews Turned to the Right?; Part II: Jew-Splitting in Judith Butler's Parting Ways; Postscript: Theorizing Antisemitic Laughter; Envoy: Adieu to France?; Index Nominium.Is Theory Good for the Jews? is the first attempt at exploring the cultural, intellectual, literary, and ideological roots of French engagement with the global and local upsurge of antisemitism in the 21st century. It is also the first attempt at analyzing the French responses to this new crisis. Chaouat endeavors to understand phenomena of repression, distortion, perversion, or outright denial, within the specific context of French intellectual and cultural history. By looking back to the 1960s and the emergence of a theoretical discourse on trauma, victims and suffering, the Holocaust and the Jews in literature, philosophy, and literary theory, he offer the first in-depth exploration of the cultural roots of French responses to the new antisemitism. Engaging with the work of major thinkers such as Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-François Lyotard, Is Theory Good for the Jews? is an essential texts for scholars of contemporary French and contemporary Jewish Studies.Contemporary French and francophone cultures ;43.AntisemitismFranceHistory20th centuryAntisemitismFranceHistory21st centuryJewsFrancePublic opinionAntisemitismHistoryAntisemitismHistoryJewsPublic opinion.305.892/4044Chaouat Bruno1208515UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910159441603321Is theory good for the Jews2787992UNINA