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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Autores principales:Samuels, Maurice (Autor)
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: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."