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Dispatches from the Balkan War and Other Writings » Read Now
by Alain Finkielkraut, Richard Golsan, Peter S. Rogers. 232 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, History, Entire Library

Dispatches from the Balkan War and Other Writings is a collection of essays on the Balkan crisis and on European reaction to it. In opposition to many powerful figures in France, ALAIN FINKIELKRAUT has largely supported the Croatian struggles for sovereignty. He argues against an array of outmoded...
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Dispatches from the Balkan War and Other Writings is a collection of essays on the Balkan crisis and on European reaction to it. In opposition to many powerful figures in France, ALAIN FINKIELKRAUT has largely supported the Croatian struggles for sovereignty. He argues against an array of outmoded views of the Balkan region and its political and cultural conditions -- conceptions that date back to earlier in the century and that have long be-deviled the region and the European powers' relation to it. The book takes up larger issues about European political and intellectual history -- issues that are in urgent need of re-examination and revision in the post-Cold War world.
A timely and passionate book, this volume will be of great interest to Finkielkraut's many admirers as well as to anyone interested in the ongoing Balkan crisis and modern European history.
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Remembering in Vain: The Klaus Barbie Trial and Crimes against Humanity » Read Now
by Alain Finkielkraut, Sima Godfrey, Roxanne Lapidus. 102 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Entire Library
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The Wisdom of Love » Read Now
by Alain Finkielkraut, Kevin O'Neill, David Suchoff. 158 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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The Future of a Negation: Reflections on the Question of Genocide » Read Now
by Alain Finkielkraut, Mary Byrd Kelly. 152 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Entire Library

The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust -- and on Holocaust denial -- from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and influential intellectuals in contemporary Europe.
The book examines the Holocaust, its origins in modern European thought and politics, and recent...
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The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust -- and on Holocaust denial -- from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and influential intellectuals in contemporary Europe.
The book examines the Holocaust, its origins in modern European thought and politics, and recent "revisionist" attempts to deny its full dimensions and, in some cases, its very existence as historical fact. Finkielkraut's central topic is the impulse toward "negation" of the Nazi horrors: the arguments made by many people, of varying political orientations, that "the gas chambers are a hoax or, in any case, an unverifiable rumor". In addition, Finkielkraut looks at other instances of twentieth-century mass murder and at arguments made by contemporary politicians and intellectuals that similarly deny the full extent of these other atrocities. An original, fearless book, The Future of a Negation is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and of genocidal politics and thought in our century.
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The Imaginary Jew: Le Juif Imaginaire » Read Now
by Alain Finkielkraut, Kevin R. O'Neill, David Suchoff. 206 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Entire Library

The Holocaust changed what it means to be a Jew, for Jew and non-Jew alike. Much of the discussion about the new meaning has been done by French writers of the left, but their work is a storm of contradictions. In The Imaginary Jew, Alain Finkielkraut describes with passion and acuity his own passage through that storm.
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Vichy's Afterlife: History and Counterhistory in Postwar France (Discussion of Alain Finkielkraut begins on p. 139) » Read Now
by Richard J. Golsan. 234 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

One of the distinctive features of the "Vichy Syndrome" -- the persistence of the memory of the Vichy regime in French political and cultural life -- is that it has been extremely difficult for an authoritative historical discourse to impose itself. Why does Vichy, and all that the name entails...
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One of the distinctive features of the "Vichy Syndrome" -- the persistence of the memory of the Vichy regime in French political and cultural life -- is that it has been extremely difficult for an authoritative historical discourse to impose itself. Why does Vichy, and all that the name entails, fascinate and even obsess the French, inflecting not only discussions of the past but of the present as well?
In Vichy's Afterlife, Richard J. Golsan explores the complexities of some of the most provocative episodes of Vichy's curious persistence in France's national consciousness. He argues that each of these episodes, events, and scandals, constitutes a crossroads where history and "counterhistory" -- different or competing versions of the past -- encounter one another, often with explosive and even destructive consequences.
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Poststructuralism, Politics and Education (Chap. 3 "Against Alain Finkielkraut's The Undoing of Thought: Culture, Education and Postmodernism") » Read Now
by Michael Peters. 216 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Education, Entire Library

The poststructuralist critique of subject-centered reason is investigated, both historically and theoretically, against the background of the modernity/postmodernity and "information society" debates. Peters criticizes neoliberal constructions of the subject in education that rest heavily on the...
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The poststructuralist critique of subject-centered reason is investigated, both historically and theoretically, against the background of the modernity/postmodernity and "information society" debates. Peters criticizes neoliberal constructions of the subject in education that rest heavily on the assumption of "economic man." He searches for viable contemporary political forms by investigating the role of intellectuals and education in postmodern culture; the neoliberal doctrine of the self-limiting state; and its construction of "market" subjects such as education and the politics of space, ethics after Auschwitz, science and technology, the critical role of mass media, cybernetics and cyberspace, democracy and the politics of difference.
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Facing Postmodernity: Contemporary French Thought on Culture and Society (Discussion of Alain Finkielkraut begins on p. 98) » Read Now
by Max Silverman. 198 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Facing Postmodernity explains French cultural theory by grounding it in the politics of the issues facing France today such as: * the breaking of the city * racism * the crisis of culture * new citizenship. It discusses some of the major responses to postmodernity by contemporary French...
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Facing Postmodernity explains French cultural theory by grounding it in the politics of the issues facing France today such as: * the breaking of the city * racism * the crisis of culture * new citizenship. It discusses some of the major responses to postmodernity by contemporary French thinkers, both the very well known - Lyotard, Levinas, Derrida - and those who will be less familiar to a non-French audience. In doing so, it addresses the questions central to the postmodern debate whatever country it takes place in; questions of history, of representation, identity and community.
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