tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post5239545600952385287..comments2024-02-16T22:14:46.997-05:00Comments on Deborah Lipstadt’s Blog: The So-Called "New" Antisemitism: How New? What's New?Deborah Lipstadthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459645888846468575noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-48973286151733477502009-02-14T10:13:00.000-05:002009-02-14T10:13:00.000-05:00Antisemitism?A message of hope from a jewAntisemitism?<BR/><BR/><A HREF="video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4706543509678082810" REL="nofollow">A message of hope from a jew</A>Diogohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07638771332109467487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-83823448565218745292009-02-13T10:28:00.000-05:002009-02-13T10:28:00.000-05:00Dr. Lipstadt, How fascinating that Sartre has come...Dr. Lipstadt, <BR/><BR/>How fascinating that Sartre has come back into the discussion. <BR/><BR/>J-P Sartre's thesis was that for the Right's political theory (Maurass, Chesterton, Belloc) the Jew represents an annoying example of a "universal" human who botches their dream of a particularistic civilization based on time, tradition, and the charming details of locatlity. The code words are "cosmopolitan, rootless, or internationalist". <BR/><BR/>The political theory of the left (Marx) is equally annoyed by jewish existence. The left has a universal, general theory of the homogenous brotherhood of all men where in the utopian state all differences of class and type would vanish. <BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, in the Left's theory, the Jew becomes an instant misfit for sticking to his particular religion, traditions and history. <BR/><BR/>The odd conclusion follows: <BR/><BR/>In Western political theory there is no place for Jews because the left finds them too particular or individual, and the right finds them too "cosmopolitan" and stateless. <BR/><BR/>The ultimate culprit is the limits of Western philosophy which has been hung up on problems of teh "Universal and Particular" since Plato's presented his theory fo Forms. <BR/><BR/>Sartre has a nice take on the problem. He feels the Jew by being a human being suspended in that flux which pulses between the universal and concrete is a model of existential humanity. <BR/><BR/>The point is that all people are both Universal and Particular, Tew is just a more obvious example of the human condition. <BR/><BR/>Hannah Arendt takes this to a new level by situating the problem of anti-Semitism in Hegel's problem of the "alienation of state and society". This is the same universal and particular problem at a higher level. <BR/><BR/>What all this argues for ultimately is the absolute theoretitcal necessity of Zionism. Zionism is definded a state where a man can be both everyman and one particular man. <BR/><BR/>In other words a Jew, or as Sartre would put it a human being.StGuyFawkeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06570291822949968620noreply@blogger.com