Episode 211: Sartre on Racism and Authenticity (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On Jean-Paul Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate (1946) and "Black Orpheus" (1948).
How can we best understand the psychology of racism? Sartre condemns anti-Semitism as denying the facts of the human condition: the responsibility for fixing problems and not blaming them on a demonized other. But he also criticizes "the democrat" for a humanism that pretends we're in a post-racial world, calling instead for "concrete liberalism" that treats Jews not as abstract individuals but as real people in an an oppressed situation.
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| 0:25.6 | how can we best understand the psychology of racism |
| 0:27.7 | and reactions to it, |
| 0:29.2 | and we read two essays by Jean Paul Sartre, |
| 0:31.5 | anti-Semite and Jew, |
| 0:32.7 | an exploration of the etiology of hate from 1946, |
| 0:36.2 | and a black orfius from 1948. |
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