Sartre, Jews, and the Other: Rethinking Antisemitism, Race, and Gender

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The starting point for this compilation is the wish to rethink the concept of antisemitism, race and gender in light of Sartre's pioneering Réflexions sur la Question Juive seventy years after its publication. The book gathers texts by prestigious scholars from different disciplines in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, with the objective or revisiting this work locating it within the setting of two other pioneering - and we argue, related - publications, namely Simone De Beauvoir's Le deuxième sexe of 1949 and Franz Fanon's Peau noire et masques blancs of 1952. This particular and original standpoint sheds new light on the different meanings and political functions of the concept of antisemitism in a political and historical context marked by the post-modern concepts of multi-ethnicity and multiculturalism. Foreword Table of Contents Introduction: Jean-Paul Sartre’s Réflexions sur la question juive Inauthenticity and Violence: A Critique of Sartre’s Portrait of the Anti-Semite Antisemitism as Existential Crime The Occulted Paragraph: Menahem Brinker’s Translation and Reading of Sartre’s Réflexions sur la Question Juive From Recognition to Acknowledgment: Placing the Sartre’s Jewish Question into Question Sartre’s Algerian Jewish Question The Jewish Question Versus the “Jewish Problem:” Sartre Amid a Strange Silence Being and Jewishness: Levinas Reader of Sartre Sartre’s Multidirectional Anti-Racism Minor-to-Minor Intersections: Jewish and Aboriginal Australians Between Antisemitism and Racism The Antisemite, the Democrat, and the Jew: Sartre and the Rest Sartre’s Reflections on the Jewish Question: Avatars of its reception in Argentina and Brazil Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, and Carla Lonzi: A Bizarre Genealogy Deathmurder: From the Language of Humanity to the Question of Who Can Be Murdered Orpheus, pied-noir: Sartre, Sénac, and the Poetics of Algerian Becoming “Le juif, c’est moi”: Sartre, Blanchot, Badiou “Women, Blacks, Jews”: Overcoming Otherness Indeterminate Jews List of Contributors Index