Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt

Markus Bitterolf

Manfred Dahlmann

Gerhard Scheit

Miriam Mettler

David Hellbrück

Till Gathmann

Alex Gruber

Joachim Bruhn

Oskar Maria Graf

Jonathan S. Tobin

Bruno Chaouat

Thorsten Fuchshuber

Michael Heidemann

Caroline Glick

Norman J.W. Goda

Alex Traiman

Ksenia Svetlova

Alexandra Bandl

H.v.Z.

Felix Brandner

Luis Gruhler

Mit Beiträgen von Thorsten Fuchshuber, David Hellbrück, Alex Traiman, Ksenia Svetlova, Caroline Glick, Gerhard Scheit, Till Gathmann, Jonathan S. Tobin, Norman J.W. Goda, Alexandra Bandl, H.v.Z., Bruno Chaouat, Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt, Oskar Maria Graf, Markus Bitterolf, Miriam Mettler, Alex Gruber, Felix Brandner, Luis Gruhler, Michael Heidemann, Joachim Bruhn, Manfred Dahlmann.

Zeitschrift für Ideologiekritik

sans phrase: Heft 20

For at least fifteen years, any keen observer of European society has been aware that antisemitism is no longer a matter of racial theory, nationalism, or exclusion of the 'other.' While in the past antisemites saw Jews as all too modern 'rootless cosmopolitans' (to use Stalin's expression), today's European antisemitism construes them as obsolete precisely because they are attached to their roots, their land, their community, their origin. The Jews are now perceived as a reactionary force that hinders the progress of humankind toward multiculturalism, understood as the peaceful, infinitely enriching coexistence of ethnicities, races, religions, and cultures within the same territory. The antisemite of yore viewed the Jews as an inferior race; today he views them as racist. By looking back to the emergence of a postwar theoretical discourse on trauma, memory, victims, suffering, the Holocaust and the Jews, Is Theory Good for the Jews? explores how 'French thought' is implicated in intellectual, literary and ideological components of the global and local upsurge of antisemitism. The author probes the legacy of Heidegger in France and exposes the shortcomings of radical social critique and postcolonial theory confronted to the challenge of Islamic terrorism and Jew hatred. This book is the first effort to analyze French responses that have regrettably played their part in generating the new antisemitism.

French Thought and the Challenge of the New Antisemitism

Is Theory Good for the Jews?

S'offre ici au lecteur un Chateaubriand désoeuvré, dépossédé, aliéné à sa propre mort. Un Chateaubriand qui n'en fini pas de finir, et jouit, malgré qu'il en ait, de l'effeuillage de la mort.

Je meurs par morceaux. Chateaubriand

Bruno Chaouat

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