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Francois Rastier

On industrialization and the “Holocaust by bullets”

by François Rastier Technology and modernity. — In Cultural Studies circles, Holocaust studies readily make room for theories of trauma and the messianism of political theology; Heidegger and Heideggerians like Blanchot or Nancy

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MICHEL WIEVIORKA, THE “REPUBLICANISTS”: book review

The author, a sociologist and academic executive, has long directed the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH). Following the comments of Minister Frédérique Vidal who was concerned about the penetration of "Islamo-leftism" and requested a report, he "took charge" of himself

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Islamo-leftism as rhetoric

by Shmuel Trigano, Professor Emeritus of Universities (Sociology, Nanterre) "In the Jewish signifier, everything is good"... I had the opportunity to see on the television channel France 5 (in the program C'est ce soir by Karim Rissouli) an interview with Edwy

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Francois Rastier

How Anti-Semitism Deconstructs Anti-Zionism

By François Rastier Gianni Vattimo and Michael Marder, two internationally renowned postmodern philosophers, recently published a programmatic collection: Deconstructing Zionism (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014). Their introduction is entitled “If not now, when?” (pp. I-XXI). This title refers to a title by Primo

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