Table of Contents

French Intellectuals and "the Jewish Question"; The Mirror Image and the Politics of Writing; Sartre's Useless Passion: Writing under the German Occupation; Sartre's Postwar Temoignage; Bearing Witness to the Victims of History: Sartre's Reflexions; Sartre's Passion: Engagement and the Project of Universal Emancipation; Sartre, Israel and the Politics of the Intellectual; Sartre's Final Reflections: Intellectual Politics and 'the Jewish Question'; The Eternal Return of Sartre: Reading Reflexions sur la question juive

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Critical analysis of the historic anti-Semitism of France through the lens of Jean-Paul Sartre's philosophy

About the Author

Jonathan Judaken is an associate professor of modern European cultural and intellectual history at the University of Memphis.

Reviews

"Within a few pages of opening Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question we realize that something much more interesting is in the offing than an uninspiring academic survey of everything Sartre wrote of said about Jews, anti-Semitism, Judaism and Israel... Jews are more than simply one concern among others for Sartre: Judaken's evidence does indeed make a compelling case that they constitute one of his major preoccupations at decisive points in his career... All this is presented in painstaking detail by someone who knows French history, and Sartre, very thoroughly. Judaken's is a well-developed and impressively knowledgable study."--Times Literary Supplement, October 26 2007