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Discours et contre-discours sur l’antisémitisme dans les années 2000. Essai de sociologie des intellectuels
Translated Title: Discourse and Counter-Discourse on Antisemitism in the 2000s: An Essay on the Sociology of Intellectuals
Author(s): Mosbah-Natanson, Sébastien
Date: 2025
Topics: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Discourse, Anti-Antisemitism, Antisemitism: New Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Universities / Higher Education
Abstract: This article explores reactions to the rise of anti-Semitism in France in the early 2000s. From the perspective of the sociology of intellectuals, it seeks to understand why intellectuals chose to take up such an issue. We begin by painting a portrait of the intellectuals who publish on this burning issue. We highlight common social properties, but also substantial distinctions between them. Thus, while writing about anti-Semitism is very largely (but not exclusively) the work of Jewish intellectuals, their profiles and trajectories vary. Secondly, we differentiate between discourses and counter-discourses on anti-Semitism. The first ones are intellectual productions devoted to discussions and scientific controversies on the forms taken by this resurgence of anti-Semitism – in particular around the thesis of the “new anti-Semitism”. The second ones are intellectual productions that are more broadly devoted to denouncing this thesis and the intellectuals behind it. What emerges is a fragmented intellectual arena polarized around the issue of Jew-hatred in contemporary French society.