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	Alain Finkielkraut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alain Finkielkraut (born in Paris on June 30, 1949) is a French essayist, and only son of a Jewish Polish artisan manufacturing fine leather goods who was deported to Auschwitz.
		Author of a number of books, Finkielkraut is among France's cohort of public intellectuals who appear regularly on talk shows and publish columns in the French media, in Finkielkraut's case from what in France is known as a humanist standpoint.
		Finkielkraut's remarks that the French Soccer Team was "Black, Black, Black" (as opposed to the expression "Black, Blanc, Beur", coined after the 1998 World Cup victory to honor the African and Afro Caribean, European and North African origins of the players) were seen as "racially insensitive".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alain_Finkielkraut (477 words)

	Alain Finkielkraut’s interview on Europe 1
		Alain Finkielkraut, you say that there are in France those who hate the Republic, that there is an anti-republican pogrom.
		Finkielkraut - The gift to Dieudonné is precisely to respond to his reproaches and to examine colonization and slavery as he asks us to, and in this way one cannot speak of Black slave trade except for the Atlantic slave trade, one cannot speak of a specific Western presence in the matter of abolitionism.
		Finkielkraut - I offer my apologies to those who have been offended by that person who is not me; I do not have within me any feeling of scorn or hatred towards any group whatsoever and I feel, by mission, in solidarity with new immigrants in France, notably those of the second and third generation.
	www.amnation.com /vfr/archives/004639.html (2779 words)

	Innocents Abroad: 11/30/2003 - 12/06/2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Finkielkraut’s closing words aptly describe the situation: “The future of hate is in their camp (the vigilant) and not in that of the Vichy loyalists.
		Finkielkraut is himself a Jew, and his very appearance, his manners and the breadth of his intellect serve to remind us of the vibrant Jewish intellectual and moral tradition that has contributed so much to French society and civilization.
		Finkielkraut is already familiar to English speakers from the translation of his celebrated French work, La Défaite de la pensée (published in English as The Defeat of the Mind).
	innocentsabroad.blogspot.com /2003_11_30_innocentsabroad_archive.html (2354 words)

	Finkielkraut's Plain Talk On Race - November 29, 2005 - The New York Sun
		L'affaire Finkielkraut, as one might label the controversy currently swirling around the French-Jewish thinker Alain Finkielkraut, is not quite the Dreyfus Affair, but it does tell us something about contemporary French political culture and about the duplicity of the media, even of its most supposedly respectable representatives.
		Finkielkraut told Haaretz, must stop treating these youngsters as victims of imaginary injustices and demand that they think of themselves - as did Jewish immigrants in the past - as French citizens with all the opportunities and responsibilities that this entails.
		Finkielkraut did not recant his opinions - on the contrary, he made it clear that he stood behind what he had said in Haaretz - these remarks were taken by MRAP as an apology and the threatened lawsuit was dropped.
	www.nysun.com /article/23689 (535 words)

	Denis Dutton on Alain Finkielkraut
		Finkielkraut tracks this renewal back to the founding of UNESCO, which was originally built on ideals of liberty and the free exchange of ideas and information.
		Quoting Hélé Béji, Finkielkraut points out that the very idea of cultural identity which was used as “a means of resistance under colonial rule.
		In this fine translation by Judith Friedlander, Alain Finkielkraut demonstrates himself to be a bracingly different voice on the French intellectual scene.
	www.denisdutton.com /finkielkraut_review.htm (884 words)

	Alain Finkielkraut - Wikipédia
		Alain Finkielkraut est un intellectuel français, écrivain et auteur de nombreux essais, né à Paris le 30 juin 1949.
		Alain Finkielkraut prétend critiquer certaines illusions de gauche, c'est-à-dire d'une gauche révolutionnaire avec ce qu'il juge être ses dérives (tiers-mondisme et multiculturalisme menant au relativisme) du point de vue d'une position qui est celle de la gauche antitotalitaire.
		Alain Finkielkraut est également vivement attaqué par le mensuel Le Monde diplomatique accusé d'avoir pris la défense d'Oriana Fallaci, auteur de l'essai controversé La rage et l'orgueil; Finkielkraut accuse l'auteur de l'article d'avoir déformé et trahi, ses propos.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alain_Finkielkraut (3444 words)

	Alain Finkielkraut - BiblioMonde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Finkielkraut, les "noirs" et les "arabes" : Interrogé dans le journal israélien Haaretz sur les violences urbaines en France, le philosophe s'en prend vivement aux "noirs", aux "Arabes" et à l'islam.
		Alain Finkielkraut lui fournit obligeamment le petit bois dont il a besoin pour entretenir le feu de sa haine parallèle...
		Finkielkraut et Meirieu : un essai de théorisation pas toujours très convaincant.
	www.bibliomonde.net /pages/fiche-auteur.php3?id_auteur=157 (930 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Imaginary Jew: Livres en anglais: Alain Finkielkraut,David Suchoff,Kevin O'Neill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Finkielkraut, one of France's most respected left-wing Jewish intellectuals, originally penned this "autobiographical work of cultural criticism" in 1980 as a meditation on Judaism, modernity, and his own tortuous path through life as an "imaginary Jew," living off a borrowed identity, to a newfound commitment to Jewish memory.
		Writing in powerful self-examination, Finkielkraut, a postmodern Jew, wonders whether he and his contemporaries now have any actual connections to the realities of the ghettos and shtetls.
		Although Finkielkraut sets his arguments within the cultural-political context of France, the issues he considers are international, relevant to any heterogeneous society.
	www.amazon.fr /Imaginary-Jew-Alain-Finkielkraut/dp/0803268955 (415 words)

	Other Voices 2.1 (February 2000), Ilana M. Blumberg "Against Denial"
		The Future of a Negation, originally published in 1982, is the response of public intellectual Alain Finkielkraut to what had become known in France as "le negationnisme"—not simply the minimization of the atrocities of the Holocaust, but the outright denial of the existence of the gas chambers and the genocide of the Jews.
		Finkielkraut's argument, that the impulse to deny genocide is linked to the desire to assert the pressing needs of one's own group, represents denial as a form of narcissism.
		If the book disappoints, it may be oddly due to Finkielkraut's resistance to "autobiography," his desire to upset the postmodern ethic and reinstate the facts rather than direct the focus toward the speaker.
	www.othervoices.org /2.1/blumberg/finkielkraut.html (1198 words)

	Israpundit » Blog Archive » French Court Dismisses Malicious SLAPP “Libel” Suit against ...
		Finkielkraut, who is one of France’s most notable French intellectuals along with two other Jews, Bernard-Henri Levy and Andr Glucksmann, already made headlines at the end of last year when he had to apologize for comments about the riots which took place around France in an interview with Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
		Some of Finkielkraut’s answers were translated to French and published in the national newspaper Le Monde before they grew into a general controversy and condemnation of Finkielkraut, who was accused of racism.
		Finkielkraut started his career as a militant of the left but drifted through the years to the right, making many enemies on the way.
	www.israpundit.com /2006/?p=1686 (1009 words)

	French Thinker Called a âRacistâ for Comments \| The Jewish Exponent
		Finkielkraut, 56, was quoted as saying that "in France, there are also other immigrants whose situation is difficult - Chinese, Vietnamese, Portuguese - and they're not taking part in the riots.
		The comments by Finkielkraut, a former leader of the left-wing 1968 student uprisings who in recent years has been characterized as a "neo-conservative" because of his support for Israel, launched a French version of the "culture wars" that have periodically raged in the United States over the past few decades.
		Finkielkraut, 56, is the son of Polish Jewish immigrants to France, survivors of Auschwitz whose parents died there.
	www.jewishexponent.com /article/1880 (591 words)

	France’s Jewish Prophets: Alain Finkielkraut, Albert Memmi, and the Looming Crisis of Liberalism \| Dr. Michael ...
		In the Haaretz interview, which presented Finkielkraut as a “deviant, even very deviant voice,” Finkielkraut denounced the tendency of the makers of French public opinion to find excuses for the violence by blaming it as the natural response to French racism and the social conditions of the rioters.
		First, it is clear that Finkielkraut's racism, if it can be called that, is obviously not that of the blood and soil nativist, but that of the Enlightenment universalist troubled by another’s perceived particularism.
		Except for Finkielkraut and his few (and almost entirely Jewish) defenders, no one seriously doubted any of the clichés regarded by most as self-evident: specifically, that the rioters are “poorly socialized” and “marginalized” victims of racism and “arabo-phobia,” all of which make the violence understandable and excusable.
	www.zeek.net /print/605finkiel (2989 words)

	The treason of the intellectuals and "the undoing of thought" by Roger Kimball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Finkielkraut’s distinctive contribution is to have taken the measure of the cultural swamp that surrounds us, to have delineated the links joining the politicization of the intellect and its current forms of debasement.
		Finkielkraut speaks in this context of a “cheerful confusion which raises everyday anthropological practices to the pinnacle of the human race’s greatest achievements.” This process began in the nineteenth century, but it has been greatly accelerated in our own age.
		Finkielkraut notes that the rhetoric of postmodernism is in some ways similar to the rhetoric of Enlightenment.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/11/dec92/treason.htm (3143 words)

	Zeek \| France’s Jewish Prophets: Alain Finkielkraut, Albert Memmi, and the Looming Crisis of Liberalism \| Dr. Michael ...
		France’s Jewish Prophets: Alain Finkielkraut, Albert Memmi, and the Looming Crisis of Liberalism
		More than the Iraq war, however, it is the question of immigration that looms as France’s greatest challenge, and it is on that issue that France's Jewish intellectuals are marking their greatest distance from the country’s liberal consensus.
		Two figures in particular stand out: Albert Memmi, the venerable fellow traveler of Jean-Paul Sartre whose leftist, third-worldist credentials are indisputable, and Alain Finkielkraut, who made his career defending the universalist orthodoxy of French Republicanism (itself a particularly Jewish career in the spirit of Adolphe Crémieux and Léon Blum).
	www.zeek.net /605finkiel (1129 words)

	EJP \| News \| France \| Philosopher apologises for “immigrant” comments
		Le Monde’s article quoted Finkielkraut in the original Haaretz article, among other statements, as saying: “The French mass media which was assimilating the riots that took place in the suburbs as a social-economic cause was shocked by the explanation given by Finkielkraut.
		Finkielkraut nevertheless stated that he would not want to shake the hand of the person the Le Monde article depicted him as.
		It is a nightmare,” Finkielkraut said on the Europe 1 radio station on Friday.
	www.ejpress.org /article/4357 (527 words)

	In the Name of Humanity; Reflections on the Twentieth Century; Alain Finkielkraut
		So suggests acclaimed philosopher Alain Finkielkraut in In the Name of Humanity, an unsettling reflection on the twentieth century in its twilight hours in which he asks us to rethink our assumptions about universalism and humanism.
		Finkielkraut reminds us that the concept of cultural relativism—indeed, the very idea of tolerating other cultures—is a relatively recent development in Western history.
		Alain Finkielkraut's books include The Defeat of the Mind, The Imaginary Jew, and Remembering in Vain: The Klaus Barbie Trial and Crimes Against Humanity.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023111/0231110200.HTM (461 words)

	Interview: Simon Schama and Alain Finkielkraut Discuss a Percieved Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in the US and Europe
		What may be a bit more worrying is in the current climate of bitter anti-Americanism, notwithstanding Tony Blair, people more in the mainstream of political and intellectual life feel that there is no longer any taboo on crossing a line between anti-Zionism, criticizing the Israeli government, and anti-Semitism.
		FINKIELKRAUT: Well, during the last 50 years, the Jews in Europe have been shielded from hatred and bigotry by the shadow of Hitler, and it's not true anymore.
		SIEGEL: Simon Schama, historian of Columbia University, and philosopher Alain Finkielkraut of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, were in New York attending the conference of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/transcripts/2003/may/030513.finkielkraut.html (1193 words)

	Alain Finkielkraut: the latest Lawrence Summers
		He seems to be suffering from the “Lawrence Summers Syndrome”—making a well-thought-out, very politically incorrect statement, and then instantly and extravagantly retracting it out of fear of being politically incorrect.
		Also, Finkielkraut gave a long interview on television which a French-speaking VFR reader described as follows:
		There is no mystery or contradiction in the actions of Alain Finkielkraut.
	www.amnation.com /vfr/archives/004628.html (441 words)

	LP: What Sort of Frenchmen Are They?
		Finkielkraut: "In France, they would like very much to reduce these riots to their social dimension, to see them as a revolt of youths from the suburbs against their situation, against the discrimination they suffer from, against the unemployment.
		Alain Finkielkraut, 56, has come a long way from the events of May 1968 to the riots of October 2005.
		Finkielkraut was one of the staunchest defenders of the controversial law prohibiting head-coverings in schools, which has roiled France in recent years.
	www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=118298 (4984 words)

	French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut apologizes after death threats - Haaretz - Israel News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The November 18 Haaretz interview with Finkielkraut, who has said in the past that harm coming to Jews reminded him of the dark days when Jews were taken from their homes to concentration and death camps, did not surprise many Jews.
		While political figures and the media in France tended to link the recent riots to the distress closing in on the immigrants like a choke-hold, Finkielkraut volunteered an unequivocal opinion in the interview about the mentality of the rioters.
		Finkielkraut said in Haaretz that the message of the rioters was "not a cry for help or a demand for more schools or better schools.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=650155 (720 words)

	Never Yet Melted » Alain Finkielkraut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		From Europe, Ressentiment, Decline of the West, Decadence, Alain Finkielkraut
		of French philosopher and cultural critic Alain Finkielkraut, who thinks that “Europe does not love itself.” Finkielkraut says that it’s not forces from outside that are threatening Europe as much as the voluntary renunciation of European identity, its wish of freeing itself from itself, its own history and its traditions, only replaced by human rights.
		According to Finkielkraut, Auschwitz has become part of the foundation of the EU, a culture based on guilt.
	neveryetmelted.com /?cat=458 (303 words)

	Peaktalk - FINKIELKRAUT RECANTS
		It’s about ten days old, but it was a highly remarkable interview in Ha’aretz with French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, who in no uncertain terms diminished the economic argument to explain the French riots.
		Only hours after publication, leftist organizations were vying with each other over who would be first to sue him or file a police complaint against the philosopher for incitement to racism.
		But Finkielkraut points to something far deeper and that is the dissolution of a society that anyone can be integrated into.
	www.peaktalk.com /archives/001800.php (535 words)

	The Wisdom of Love - University of Nebraska Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"Alain Finkielkraut is a French thinker and social critic who, while taking a position in the political center, says unexpected things.
		Kevin O'Neill is an associate professor of French at the University of Colorado at Denver.
		He is cotranslator, with David Suchoff, of Alain Finkielkraut's The Imaginary Jew, also available in a Bison Books edition.
	www.nebraskapress.unl.edu /bookinfo/3235.html (319 words)

	Solomonia: Finkielkraut doesn't recognize himself
		Following both threats of death and legal sanction, French Philosopher Alain Finkielkraut has recanted his statements made in the remarkable interview he gave to the Ha'aretz newspaper.
		Finkielkraut, who went out of his way to praise the immigrants, said his original statements had been an attempt to force the political echelon to take responsibility for what was happening in the poor suburbs.
		But even after his apology, one Jewish organization condemned Finkielkraut, calling him the pyromaniac of the Jewish community.
	www.solomonia.com /blog/archives/007051.shtml (656 words)

	Amazon.com: In the Name of Humanity: Books: Alain Finkielkraut,Judith Friedlander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		by Alain Finkielkraut, Judith Friedlander "TO QUALIFY IN AUSCHWITZ for Kommando 98, also known by the prisoners as the Chemistry Kommando, Primo Levi, a chemist, had to pass a special..." (more)
		The Defeat of the Mind by Alain Finkielkraut
		The Future of a Negation: Reflections on the Question of Genocide (Texts and Contexts) by Alain Finkielkraut
	www.amazon.com /Name-Humanity-Alain-Finkielkraut/dp/0231110200 (1008 words)

	The Imaginary Jew - University of Nebraska Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In The Imaginary Jew, Alain Finkielkraut describes with passion and acuity his own passage through that storm.
		Finkielkraut decodes the shifts in anti-Semitism at the end of the Cold War, chronicles the impact of Israel’s policies on European Jews, opposes arguments both for and against cultural assimilation, reopens questions about Marx and Judaism, and marks the loss of European Jewish culture through catastrophe, ignorance, and cliché.
		Born in Paris in 1949, Alain Finkielkraut is the author of eight books, including The Wisdom of Love (Nebraska 1997).
	www.nebraskapress.unl.edu /bookinfo/2752.html (293 words)

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