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Alain Finkielkraut
b. 1949
A philosopher and essayist, Alain Finkielkraut was born in Paris and studied philosophy at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud. In the 1970s he was a leading member of the French New Philosophers. Finkielkraut teaches history of ideas in the department of humanities and social sciences at the École Polytechnique. He is a co-founder of the Institute for Levinassian Studies in Jerusalem.
Content by Alain Finkielkraut
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In the Name of the Other: Reflections on the Coming Anti-Semitism
For fifty years, Jews of the West were protected by the shield of Nazism. As Bernanos wrote, Hitler had given antisemitism a bad name.We supposed this bad name to be permanent. Yet it…