The Manichaean and the Jew : Jean-Paul Sartre's mythology of antisemitism / Rowan Dordick

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dordick, Rowan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Antisemitism.

Manichaeism.

antisemitism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : Academic Studies Press, 2026

Summary:

"Drawing on Sartre’s writings, interviews, and conversations throughout his life, this work is a critical examination of his views on antisemites and Jews set against the backdrop of existentialism, Marxism, and his own sexuality. While Sartre is often considered an opponent of antisemitism, his near-total disregard for the fate of the Jews until the end of the Second World War, when he wrote Anti-Semite and Jew, suggests a different perspective. In particular, Sartre’s claim that the antisemite is first a Manichaean who only later identifies the Jew as an embodiment of evil is interpreted as an attempt to minimize the gravity of antisemitism—a conclusion consistent with Sartre’s own admission, late in life, that he had held antisemitic views"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

The Jew in question : Sartre proposes an answer

The occupation : Sartre as prisoner and resister manqué

Antisemitism as normal : the 1939 interview

The antisemite : a holy man with unholy dreams of purification

The democrat : an ineffectual protector of the Jew

Authentic or inauthentic : choices in a situation

Anti-Semite and Jew revisited : the 1947 lecture

Not-so-strange bedfellows : the homosexual and the Jew

Arab versus Jew : Sartre walks a tightrope

The Jew reimagined : from deicide to harbinger of messianic ethics

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed April 9, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Dordick, Rowan Manichaean and the Jew

ISBN:

9798897830824

9798897830831

OCLC:

1574798222

Access Restriction:

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