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Zusatztext “The calm and smiling power [of Segré’s work] lies in the logical rigor with which he reads texts.” —Daniel Bensaïd “French anti-Semitism is a very different animal to the diffuse form that has existed in the UK and these essays … help us comprehend its complexities. Walking round Tel Aviv nowadays you are more likely to hear French spoken than English. Reading these essays it is not difficult to understand why.” — Birmingham Jewish Recorder Informationen zum Autor Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the E?cole normale supérieure and the Collège 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 Anti-Philosophy . Klappentext Since the beginning of the 'War on Terror,' Israel has become increasingly salient to imperial strategy and ever more aggressive in its policies toward the Palestinians. In this context, a key ideological weapon is the cynical accusation of 'anti-Semitism.' For historical reasons, this has been deployed most forcefully in France, and Alain Badiou and Eric Hazan caustically demolish the 'anti-Semitism is everywhere' allegation, used to bludgeon opponents of the Israeli state and those who stand in solidarity with the banlieue youth. Ivan Segre undertakes a meticulous deconstruction of a rampant 'reactionary philo-Semitism' that identifies Jewish interests with the 'democratic West.' Segre's concern is to uphold a universalist position and to defend Jewish tradition from Zionist ideological distortion. Shlomo Sand, in his preface, offers his own reflections on the nefarious uses of this highly charged accusation of racism.Show Less Zusammenfassung Dissecting how facile accusations of "anti-Semitism" are used to stifle dissent. ...
