The Querelle Between Alain Badiou and Éric Marty, Contrasted With Régis Debray's Lettre Ouverte to Élie Barnavi and Barnavi's Response

This article contrasts two major debates in book form on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, so central to French political discussion today-the 'quarrel' between Alain Badiou (with Cécile Winter, in Circonstances 3: Portées du mot 'juif') and Éric Marty (Une querelle avec Alain Ba...

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Published inModern & contemporary France Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 29 - 42
Main Author Reader, Keith
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 02.01.2014
Subjects
Conflict
Dialogue
Discourse
Evidence
France
French
Israel
Palestinian Authority
Palestinians
Taxonomy
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Summary:This article contrasts two major debates in book form on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, so central to French political discussion today-the 'quarrel' between Alain Badiou (with Cécile Winter, in Circonstances 3: Portées du mot 'juif') and Éric Marty (Une querelle avec Alain Badiou, philosophe), and the debate between Régis Debray and Élie Barnavi (À un ami israélien, by Debray with a response from Barnavi). The Badiou/Marty exchange is hostile and polarised, Badiou arguing strongly against the existence of a separate Israeli state and Marty vehemently in its favour, while À un ami israélien evidences what I describe as Debray's post-Zionism in dialogue with Barnavi's Left Zionism. What emerges from the two exchanges is, it is argued, a taxonomy of attitudes towards Israel substantially more complex than the traditional, and often misleading, polarity between 'Zionist' and 'anti-Zionist'.
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ISSN:0963-9489
1469-9869
DOI:10.1080/09639489.2013.867155