Language:
German
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
9 (2000) 148-163
Keywords:
Arendt, Hannah,
;
Sartre, Jean-Paul,
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Observes that the two philosophers' interpretations of antisemitism are diametrically opposed. Whereas Sartre considers the Jews a-historical, and Jews only because the antisemite sees them as such, Arendt places the Jews as well as antisemitism in history and explains antisemitism as founded in Jewish-Christian relations which change with the historical circumstances. Nevertheless, since both Sartre and Arendt are existentialists and disciples of Heidegger, their theories also have much in common: the importance of decision (to be a Jew, to be an antisemite); and the distinction in Sartre between the authentic and the inauthentic Jew, and in Arendt between the pariah and the parvenu. In Sartre the existentialism is polluted by Marxism (e.g. the belief that in the socialist society antisemitism will disappear), whereas Arendt sees the solution in Jewish nationalism.
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