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Lacan, Althusser, Derrida, Foucault - the currency of these names in the world of modern thought is widespread. But all too often in the English-speaking world their work and ideas are considered without reference to the context in which they were produced, and this is the gap that this new study sets out to fill. The major revaluation of what constituted the 'political', set in train by the 1968 events is a key theme here, and the work of the best-known French intellectual figures of the time both illuminates and is illuminated by it. But it is not just a new reading of already familiar figures that the reader will find in this work. Writers little-known in the English-speaking world, or hitherto not extensively treated in English, receive similar contextualising attention, so that the recent upsurge in sociology or the impact of a dissident Marxist such as Henri Lefebvre take their place alongside better-known figures in the first book-length English-language survey of one of the most exciting, and often bewildering, periods in European intellectual history.
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Davidson Li
reviewed Intellectuals and the Left in France since 1968 on September 26, 2019
Intellectuals and the Left in France since 1968
As always, my quibbles first. The intro and epilogue are fictional letters by the author to a fictional relative in Israel. And one more quibble, not with the book but the likely audience, is that the book is basically "preaching to the choir." In other words, the bulk of the readers are not going to be the politically liberal Jewish people to whom this book is directed.
This work is a well-written, pointed statement about the failure of Jews to stand up for their own interests. The Jews typically side with their enemies. This echoes the pathetic history of the Jews' alliance with the Communist movement in Russia during the early 1900's. This echoes the pathetic history of the Jews in fanatically supporting the Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR was perfectly happy to watch the Jews walk the gangplank from the ship the St. Louis, in many cases indirectly into the Eisensatzgrupen and the gas chambers.
Ruth Wisse traces the path of Jewish short story writers in Israel who impugn the moral credentials of the efforts of the State of Israel to defend itself and fail to even note the vicious primitivism of their enemies.
The book makes a lot of points that need making; too bad they will fall on ears that thoroughly agree with her.
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