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
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).
"Both important and timely, it will be a notable contribution to
the ongoing public and intellectual discussion . . . of
contemporary antisemitism and [the animus of intellectuals] toward
the state of Israel."—Elhanan Yakira, author of Post-Zionism,
Post-Holocaust: Three Essays on Denial, Forgetting, and the
Delegitimation o
"Represents a significant contribution to our understanding of both
the phenomenon of the 'new antisemitism' and a certain strain of
French critical theory over the last several decades."—Maurice
Samuels, Yale University
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