{"title":"The Phantasm of the Jew in French Philosophy: From Jean-Paul Sartre to Alain Badiou","authors":"V. Liska","doi":"10.1515/9783110671971-012","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"“ Between Sartre and the Jew in person, the Jew as idea, the phantasm of the Jew inter-vened. ” ¹ With this diagnosis, Benny Lévy, in his 1986 essay “ Sartre et la Judéité, ” points to a distinction that underlies some of the most intense philosophical debates concerning Jews and Judaism in the decades following Sartre ’ s Réflexions sur la question juive. This article reconstructs the development of the form, function, and fate of this “ phantasm, ” from Sartre ’ s contentious designation of the Jew as nothing but a construction of the antisemite to its openly antagonistic and highly problematic inflection in Alain Badiou ’ s call for the disappearance of the “ SIT Jew, ” who derives his identity from the triad Shoah, Israel, and the Talmud.","PeriodicalId":299386,"journal":{"name":"Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671971-012","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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“ Between Sartre and the Jew in person, the Jew as idea, the phantasm of the Jew inter-vened. ” ¹ With this diagnosis, Benny Lévy, in his 1986 essay “ Sartre et la Judéité, ” points to a distinction that underlies some of the most intense philosophical debates concerning Jews and Judaism in the decades following Sartre ’ s Réflexions sur la question juive. This article reconstructs the development of the form, function, and fate of this “ phantasm, ” from Sartre ’ s contentious designation of the Jew as nothing but a construction of the antisemite to its openly antagonistic and highly problematic inflection in Alain Badiou ’ s call for the disappearance of the “ SIT Jew, ” who derives his identity from the triad Shoah, Israel, and the Talmud.