L' antisemitismo. Riflessioni sulla questione ebraica

Sartre’s Anti-Semite and Jew has been on my “to-read” pile for about six months--sitting, as a matter of fact, just inches from the chair where I do all of my serious (and most of my unserious) reading. But it moved to the top today, October 27, 2018, when the United States suffered the worst anti-S Leggi tutto

«Un hombre puede ser buen padre y buen marido, ciudadano escrupuloso, amante de las letras, filántropo y además antisemita. Puede ser aficionado a la pesca y a los placeres del amor, tolerante en materia religiosa, lleno de ideas generosas sobre la condición de los indígenas del Africa central, y ad Leggi tutto

Sartre’s analysis of anti-semitism is exceptional in its own right. That much is for sure. But where it truly shines is in its universally applicable “aetiology of hate”, through which one can grasp practically all forms of fascistic, exclusionary thinking (or feeling, to be more accurate). Just ask Leggi tutto

This was dated in a major way when it comes to discussing modern Judaism and anti-Semitism. It's not that anti-Semitism has gone away (obviously) or evolved (how could it?), but the qualities of anti-Semitism and Judaism in post-war France only somewhat translate to the 21st-century Jewish experienc Leggi tutto