Radical French Thought and the Return of the 'Jewish Question'

The remaining essays are more polemical in nature and confront the anti-Israeli attacks by Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze.

List of contents

Foreword by Bruno Chaouat

To My American Readers

1. Jean Genet's Anxiety in the Face of the Good

2. Alain Badiou: The Future of a Denial

3. Saint Paul among the Moderns

4. On Giorgio Agamben's State of Exception

5. Foucault, Deleuze, the Jews and Israel

Index

About the author

Éric Marty is Professor of Contemporary French Literature at the University of Paris VII - Diderot. He is author of many books including Pourquoi lee siècle a-t-il pris Sade au sérieux? (Why did the 20th century take Sade seriously?) Roland Barthes: La littérature et le droit à la mort (Roland Barthes: Literature and the right to death) Une querelle avec Alain Badiou, philosophe (A quarrel with Alain Badiou, philosopher), Bref séjour à Jérusalem (A short stay in Jerusalem), and most recently the novel Le Cœur de la jeune Chinoise (The heart of the young Chinese). Marty is the editor of the Œuvres Complètes of Roland Barthes and the Journal of André Gide, 1887-1925.

Alan Astro is Professor of Modern Languages at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He has translated from French (writers such as Henri Raczymow and Cyrille Fleischman) and Yiddish (in Yiddish South of the Border: An Anthology of Latin American Yiddish Writing).

Summary

The remaining essays are more polemical in nature and confront the anti-Israeli attacks by Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze.

Product details

• Authors: Aeric Marty, Eric Marty, Eric/ Astro Marty, MARTY ERIC
• Assisted by: Foreword by Bruno Chaouat Translated by (Editor), Eric Marty (Editor), Alan Astro (Translation)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2015
• EAN: 9780253016782
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01678-2
• No. of pages: 154
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Studies in Antisemitism; Studies in Antisemitism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research