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

"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 of Israel "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

ric Marty is Professor of Contemporary French Literature at the University of Paris VII - Diderot. He is author of many books including Pourquoi le XXe sicle a-t-il pris Sade au srieux? (Why did the 20th century take Sade seriously?) Roland Barthes: La littrature et le droit la mort (Roland Barthes: Literature and the right to death) Une querelle avec Alain Badiou, philosophe (A quarrel with Alain Badiou, philosopher), Bref sjour Jrusalem (A short stay in Jerusalem), and most recently the novel Le Cur de la jeune Chinoise (The heart of the young Chinese). Marty is the editor of the uvres Compltes of Roland Barthes and the Journal of Andr 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).

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