Reflections on Anti-Semitism
Published on 6. August 2013
256 pages
978-1-78168-534-1 (ISBN)
Description
Since the inception of the "War on Terror," Israel has become increasingly important to Western imperial strategy and ever more aggressive in its policies towards the Palestinians. A key ideological weapon in this development is the cynical and unjustified accusation of "anti-Semitism" to silence protest and dissent.
For historical reasons, this tactic has been deployed most forcefully in France, and in the first of the two essays in this book French writers Alain Badiou and Eric Hazan demolish the "anti-Semitism is everywhere" claim used to bludgeon critics of the Israeli state and those who stand in solidarity with the banlieue youth.
In "The Philo-Semitic Reaction," Ivan Segr¿ undertakes a meticulous deconstruction of a rampant reactionary trend that identifies Jewish interests with the "democratic" West. Segr¿'s aim is to uphold a universalist position and to defend Jewish tradition from Zionist ideological distortion.
For historical reasons, this tactic has been deployed most forcefully in France, and in the first of the two essays in this book French writers Alain Badiou and Eric Hazan demolish the "anti-Semitism is everywhere" claim used to bludgeon critics of the Israeli state and those who stand in solidarity with the banlieue youth.
In "The Philo-Semitic Reaction," Ivan Segr¿ undertakes a meticulous deconstruction of a rampant reactionary trend that identifies Jewish interests with the "democratic" West. Segr¿'s aim is to uphold a universalist position and to defend Jewish tradition from Zionist ideological distortion.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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978-1-78168-534-1 (9781781685341)
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Reflections on Anti-Semitism
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Persons
Alain Badiou teaches Philosophy at the ¿cole normale sup¿rieure and the Coll¿ge international de philosophie in Paris. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject, Being and Event, Manifesto for Philosophy, and Gilles Deleuze. His recent books include The Meaning of Sarkozy, Ethics, Metapolitics, Polemics, The Communist Hypothesis, Five Lessons on Wagner, and Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- 'Anti-Semitism Everywhere' in France Today
- 1. A Year of Excitement
- 2. Anti-Semitism Real and Imagined
- 3. A Strange Rhetoric
- 4. The New Inquisitors
- 5. What Interests, What Aims?
- 6. The Role of Israel
- 7. Legal Actions
- 8. The Inquisitors' Resources and Ruses
- 9. Why France?
- The Philo-Semitic Reaction: The Treason of the Intellectuals
- Introduction
- 1. The 'Communitarian' Ideology (Critique of Recent French 'Communitarian' Thought)
- Appendix: Origin and Continuity of 'Communitarian' Ideology from May 1968 to Today
- 2. On Ethno-Cultural Sociology
- Appendix: A Counter-Analysis of Ethno-Cultural Sociology's Statistical Data
- 3. Anti-Taguieff: Pierre-André Taguieff's Revolution in Science
- 4. Oriana Fallaci and 'The Jews': An Ambivalent Resistance
- Appendix: Mass Culture and 'The Jews'
- Epilogue
- Notes
