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Twilight of History
The acclaimed and controversial historian turns his critical gaze on the writing of history todayOn its publication in 2009, Shlomo Sand’s book The Invention of the Jewish People met with a storm of controversy. His demystifying approach to nationalist and Zionist historiography provoked much criticism from other professional historians, as well as praise. The furore gave him a privileged position to consider his academic discipline, which he reflects on here in Twilight of History.Drawing on four decades in the field, Sand takes a wider view and interrogates the study of history, whose origin lay in the need for a national ideology. Over the last few decades, traditional history has begun to fragment, yet only to give rise to a new role for historians as priests of official memory. Working in Israel has sharpened Sand’s perspective, since the role of history as national myth is particularly salient in a country where the Bible is treated as a source of historical fact. He asks such questions as: Is every historical narrative ideologically marked? Do political requirements and state power weigh down inordinately on historical research and teaching? And, in such conditions, can there be a morally neutral and “scientific” truth?Despite his trenchant criticism of academic history, Sand would still like to believe that the past can be understood without myth, and finds reasons for hope in the work of Max Weber and Georges Sorel.
On the Nation and the Jewish People
Ernest Renan was one of the intellectual giants of the second half of the nineteenth century in France, the man who first opened up the study of nationalism. In this book, Shlomo Sand, the author of the best-selling The Invention of the Jewish People, demonstrates the complexity of Renan’s thought. Sand shows the relationship of Renan’s work to that of key twentieth-century thinkers on nationalism, such as Raymond Aron and Ernest Gellner, and argues for the continued importance of studying Renan.Alongside his essay, Sand presents two classic lectures by Renan: the first, the renowned “What Is a Nation?”, argues that nations are not based upon race, religion, and language: in the second he uses historical evidence to show that the Jews cannot be considered a “pure ethnos.” On the Nation and the Jewish People is an important contribution to the understanding of nationalism, bringing back into play the work of a profoundly misunderstood thinker.
How I Stopped Being a Jew
Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents: the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a “secular Jew.” With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection, he articulates the problems at the center of modern Jewish identity.How I Stopped Being a Jew discusses the negative effects of the Israeli exploitation of the “chosen people” myth and its “holocaust industry.” Sand criticizes the fact that, in the current context, what “Jewish” means is, above all, not being Arab and reflects on the possibility of a secular, non-exclusive Israeli identity, beyond the legends of Zionism.
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
A scathing argument against those who exploit the Holocaust to shield Israel from criticism—by a major figure at the center of the Israel-Palestine debate“The most controversial book of the year.” —GuardianIn his iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture to a disturbing examination of Holocaust compensation settlements. It was not until the Arab–Israeli War of 1967, when Israel’s evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it has today. Leaders of America’s Jewish community were delighted Israel was deemed a major strategic asset and, Finkelstein contends, exploited the Holocaust to enhance this new-found status.Recalling Holocaust fraudsters, Finkelstein contends the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism’s victims comes not from the distortions of deniers—but from prominent ‘guardians’ of Holocaust memory, who deploy it as a shield against any criticism. He exposes the double shakedown of European countries as well as legitimate Jewish claimants, concluding the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket.Thoroughly researched and closely argued, The Holocaust Industry is all the more disturbing and powerful because the issues it addresses are so rarely discussed.
The Age of the Poets: And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose
The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger’s famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the sole benefit of poetry or art. Instead, it must declare the end of what Badiou names the “age of the poets,” which stretches from Hölderlin to Celan. Drawing on ideas from his first publication on the subject, “The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process,” Badiou offers an illuminating set of readings of contemporary French prose writers, giving us fascinating insights into the theory of the novel while also accounting for the specific position of literature between science and ideology.
Am I Normal?
Before the nineteenth century, the term normal was rarely ever associated with human behaviour. Normal was a term used in maths: people weren't normal - triangles were. But from the 1830s, this branch of science really took off across Europe and North America, with a proliferation of IQ tests, sex studies, a census of hallucinations - even a UK beauty map (which concluded the women in Aberdeen were "the most repellent"). This book tells the surprising history how the very notion of the normal came about, how it shaped us all, often while entrenching oppressive values. Sarah Chaney looks at why we're still asking the internet: Do I have a normal body? Is my sex life normal? Are my kids normal? And along the way, she challenges why we ever thought it might be a desirable thing to be.
Femmes de nazis
Plongez dans les méandres féminins du pouvoir nazi.Juillet 1937. À travers Berlin passe un convoi de voitures S.S. bardées de croix gammées... On imagine mal Himmler aller au cinéma. C'est pourtant une comédie musicale hollywoodienne que le sinistre personnage a choisi d'aller voir ce soir-là, pour faire plaisir à son épouse.Margarete Himmler, Magda Goebbels, Carin et Emmy Goering... On oublie souvent, derrière les hauts dignitaires du IIIe Reich, les fidèles compagnes qui les guidaient, les encourageaient. D'où venaient-elles ? Que savaient-elles ? Comment ont-elles vécu les années de faste, celles de la chute ? Les femmes de nazis, aujourd'hui, sortent de l'ombre...
Vous n’aurez pas les enfants
L'histoire du plus grand sauvetage d'enfants juifs entrepris en France, dans un camp, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.26 août 1942. Le gouvernement de Vichy ordonne la rafle des juifs étrangers dans la région de Lyon. Au petit matin, ils sont 1 016 à être arrêtés et rassemblés dans un camp de triage à Vénissieux.Nuit du 28 au 29 août 1942. Des membres d'œuvres sociales présents dans l'enceinte convainquent les parents d'abandonner leurs enfants et de les confier à l'Amitié chrétienne.108 enfants vont être séparés de leurs parents et exfiltrés du camp quand les adultes seront conduits à Auschwitz et gazés. La police lance une chasse pour retrouver ces enfants, mais la résistance prévient : " Vous n'aurez pas les enfants. "L'histoire inédite du plus grand sauvetage d'enfants juifs entrepris en France pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.Inclus un cahier photos" Un travail de mémoire indispensable. " Paris Match" Un livre formidable. " RTLAbout the AuthorHistorienne, Valérie Portheret a reconstitué, au terme de vingt-cinq ans de recherches, ce sauvetage des enfants du camp de Vénissieux, recueillant, partout dans le monde, la parole d'un très grand nombre d'entre eux. Cette histoire bouleversera à l'époque l'opinion, poussant Vichy à refuser les nouvelles demandes de déportation des juifs formulées par les nazis. Un récit à retrouver dans Vous n'aurez pas les enfants.
Napoléon III et Victor Hugo – Le duel
Le 2 décembre 1851, le président de la République Louis Napoléon Bonaparte viole la Constitution et s'empare de tous les pouvoirs avant de se faire proclamer empereur. Un homme suit pas à pas, depuis des mois, celui qu'on appelle désormais Napoléon III. Il le connaît fort bien et l'a souvent rencontré. Il dénonce son forfait et s'oppose à lui farouchement. C'est Victor Hugo, député de l'Assemblée dissoute et écrivain célèbre.Avec Le Duel, Frédéric Mitterrand nous fait vivre le terrible affrontement qui opposa deux géants de l'Histoire : Napoléon III et Victor Hugo. Un récit écrit à hauteur d'homme, vivant, tendu, marqué par la passion et la violence, sur les convulsions de la haine en politique et le rapport de fascination entre hommes de pouvoir et écrivains. About the Author Né en 1947, homme de cinéma et de télévision et écrivain, Frédéric Mitterrand a été ministre de la Culture de juin 2009 à mai 2012. Il est notamment l'auteur de Mémoires d'exil (1999), Un jour dans le siècle (2000), La Mauvaise Vie (2005, prix Vaudeville), Le Festival de Cannes (2007), La Récréation (Prix du livre politique 2014), Une adolescence (2015), Mes regrets sont des remords (2016), et Le Pays de l'innocence (2017) tous parus chez Robert Laffont.
Sept conférences sur Marcel Proust
À l'intention de ceux qui partent à la découverte du plus grand monument littéraire du XXe siècle mais aussi de ceux qui l'ont déjà maintes fois visité, cet ouvrage résume, éclaire, condense en formules limpides et saisissantes les grands thèmes de l'œuvre en sept conférences magistrales : comment Prout a-t-il composé son livre, qu'est-ce qu'un " personnage proustien ", quelle est la part du génie comique dans son œuvre, celle de l'amour, de la réflexion métaphysique et de l'art, quelle est sa place par rapport à ses plus illustres prédécesseurs, Balzac ou Chateaubriand ? Après l'Introduction à la Recherche du temps perdu, Bernard de Fallois s'impose comme l'un des guides les plus accessibles, les plus clairs et les plus sûrs de l'œuvre de Marcel Proust. About the Author Bernard de Fallois (1926-2018), agrégé de lettres classiques, fut le découvreur, au début des années 1950, de Jean Santeuil et Contre Sainte-Beuve de Marcel Proust. Au début des années 1960, il se tourna vers l'édition. Directeur du Livre de Poche, il devint Directeur général du Groupe Livre/Hachette (1968-1975), puis Directeur général des Presses de la Cité (1975-1987), avant de fonder en 1987 la maison qui porte son nom. Ses textes d'étude sur Proust sont rassemblés dans Introduction à La Recherche du temps perdu (2018) et Sept conférences sur Marcel Proust (2019), parus aux Éditions de Fallois.
The Art of War
For more than 2,000 years, Sun Tzu's The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success, whether in battle, in business or in relationships. Now, in this crisp, accessible new translation, John Minford brings this seminal work to life for today's readers. A lively, learned introduction, chronologies and suggested further reading are among the valuable apparatus included in this authoritative volume. Even those readers familiar with The Art of War will experience it anew, finding it more fascinating - and more chilling - than ever. Little is known about Sun Tzu (544-496 B.C.) and his life during the Warring States period after the decline of the Zhou dysnasty, but his classic, The Art of War, has been one of the central works of Chinese literature for 2500 years. John Minford studied Chinese at Oxford and at the Australian National University and has taught in China, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. He edited (with Geremie Barme) Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience and (with Joseph S. M. Lau) Chinese Classical Literature: An Anthology of Translations. He has translated numerous works from the Chinese, including the last two volumes of the Penguin Classics edition of Cao Xueqin's eighteenth-century novel The Story of the Stone and the martial-arts fiction of the contemporary Hong Kong novelist Louis Cha.