For English-speaking readers, this book serves as an introduction
to an important French intellectual whose work, especially on the
issues of antisemitism and anti-Zionism, runs counter to the
hostility shown toward Jews by some representatives of contemporary
critical theory. It presents for the first time in English five
essays by Eric Marty, previously published in France, with a new
preface by the author addressed to his American readers. The focus
of these essays is the debate in France and elsewhere in Europe
concerning the "Jew." The first essay on Jean Genet, one of postwar
France's most important literary figures, investigates the nature
of Genet's virulent antisemitism and hatred of Israel and its
significance for an understanding of contemporary phenomena. The
curious reappearance of St. Paul in theological and political
discourse is discussed in another essay, which describes and
analyses the interest that secular writers of the far left have
shown in Paul's "universalism" placed over and against Jewish or
Israeli particularism. The remaining essays are more polemical in
nature and confront the anti-Israeli attacks by Alain Badiou and
Gilles Deleuze.
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