{"product_id":"antisemite-and-jew-isbn-9780805210477","title":"Anti-Semite and Jew","description":"\u003ci\u003eWith a new preface by Michael Walzer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean-Paul Sartre's book is a brilliant portrait of both anti-Semite \u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003eJew, written by a non-Jew and from a non-Jewish point of view. Nothing of the anti-Semite either in his subtle form as a snob, or in his crude form as a gangster, escapes Sartre's sharp eye, and the whole problem of the Jew's relationship to the Gentile is examined in a concrete and living way, rather than in terms of sociological abstractions.\"[A fervent and brilliant challenge to ant-Semitism.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A review . . . can merely indicate the humanity, the compassion, and the suggestive brilliance of Sartre's writing. His essay is a genuine contribution to contemporary thought; it will be read and reread in years to come.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Harvey Swados\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Still a monument of postwar writing on anti-Semitism . . . Michael Walzer's fine introduction will help current readers sift out what remains relevant from Sartre's work for considering the variants of anti-Semitism haunting the world today.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Elisabeth Young Bruehl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sartre's account of anti-Semitism is an acknowledged classic, based in large measure on assimilated Jews whom he personally knew. Michael Walzer's essay provides significant balance to Sartre's brilliant analysis.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Arthur Hertzberg\u003cb\u003eJEAN-PAUL SARTRE\u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Paris in 1905. Educated at the Ecole Normale, he then taught philosophy in provincial \u003ci\u003elycées\u003c\/i\u003e, and in 1938 published his first novel, \u003ci\u003eNausea.\u003c\/i\u003e During the war he completed the major work that eventually established his reputation as an existential philosopher—\u003ci\u003eBeing and Nothingness\u003c\/i\u003e (1943). After the Liberation, he founded the socialist journal \u003ci\u003eLes Temps Modernes. \u003c\/i\u003eHe was a prolific playwright, producing, among other works \u003ci\u003eNo Exit, The Devil and the Good Lord, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Condemned of Altona.\u003c\/i\u003e In 1960, he published his second basic philosophical work, \u003ci\u003eCritique of Dialectical Reason. \u003c\/i\u003eIn 1964, his account of his childhood, \u003ci\u003eWords, \u003c\/i\u003ereceived worldwide acclaim. That same year he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, which he refused. In 1971–1972, the first three volumes of his ambitious study of Flaubert’s life and work appeared. He died in 1980.\"\u003ci\u003eAnti-Semite and Jew\u003c\/i\u003e, in its best passages, stands with Theodor Adorno's study of the authoritarian personality, Talcott Parson's essays on the sociology of Nazism, Erich Fromm's \u003ci\u003eEscape from Freedom,\u003c\/i\u003eand Hannah Arendt's account of totalitarian politics . . . [Nonetheless] Sartrean authenticity has taken on new meanings, a sign simultaneously that his argument is persuasive and that it is in need of revision.\"\u003cbr\u003e—From the Preface by Michael Walzer","brand":"Schocken","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303797674213,"sku":"NP9780805210477","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780805210477.jpg?v=1767721661","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/antisemite-and-jew-isbn-9780805210477","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}