Language:
English
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Human Studies; a Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences
Angaben zur Quelle:
14, 4 (1991) 251-264
Keywords:
Sartre, Jean-Paul,
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
Analyzes Jean-Paul Sartre's identification with marginal groups: Jews, women, homosexuals, and Blacks. Sartre contends that man's need to rise above physical nature and impose civilization upon it is fraught with the danger of losing one's authenticity. Qualities possessed by "Others" can teach the individual a more courageous way of life and even offer the collective a new form of social existence. For example, Sartre reverses the antisemitic perception of the Jews' "vulgarity". Rather, it implies freshness, spontaneity, warmth and the like, attributes lacking in mainstream, bourgeois, Christian society. Sartre also identifies with the Jews' bookishness, resulting from their exclusion from the land, and their rootlessness which he sees as a symbol for a universal kind of homelessness.
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