
The right to difference : French universalism and the Jews / Maurice Samuels.
Universal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country's Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a new form of universalism, one promoting loyalty to the nation at the expense of all ethnic and religious affiliations. This timely book offers a fresh...
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Hauptverfasser: | Samuels, Maurice (VerfasserIn) |
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Format: | Buch |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Veröffentlicht: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
The revolution reconsidered |
France's Jewish star |
Universalism in Algeria |
Zola and the Dreyfus affair |
The Jew in Renoir's La grande illusion |
Sartre's "Jewish question" |
Finkielkraut, Badiou, and the "new antisemitism" |
Conclusion: "Je suis juif." |