Episode 211: Sartre on Racism and Authenticity (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Continuing on Jean-Paul Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate (1946).
Is there an "authentic" way to respond to persecution? As part of his critique of anti-semitism, Sartre criticized the responses of some Jews to this situation, e.g. denying that the persecution exists, pretending to not be Jewish, or in any way accepting the terms of anti-semitism and setting up one's life in reaction to it. Sartre instead recommends solidarity and "concrete liberalism," which we try to figure out.
Listen to part one first. Please support PEL!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | How can I save on energy bills? |
| 0:01.8 | What's the bank holiday weather? |
| 0:03.8 | Whatever the question, Google helps people in the UK access reliable news, |
| 0:08.0 | so it's easy to find quality journalism. |
| 0:10.6 | Learn more at g.co-supportingnews-uk |
| 0:15.1 | Partially examine life relies on your support. |
| 0:17.3 | To find out how to help, in ways that are cheap or even free for you, |
| 0:20.7 | check out partiallyexaminedlife.com-support. |
| 0:30.8 | Hey, you're listening to the partially examined life episode 211. |
| 0:34.7 | Part two on Sean Paul Sartre, we had discussed the first half of anti-Semite in |
| 0:39.8 | June. We're going to keep going on that and get into his essay Black Orpheus as well. |
| 0:45.0 | I think we've given a pretty good picture of how Sartre analyzes human motives and the |
| 0:50.6 | complexities and potential objections we have to that and how in particular that applied to |
| 0:56.0 | the anti-Semite, that's the least controversial part of the essay. |
| 0:59.5 | Nobody wants to defend the anti-Semite, but so what about this second part where he's |
| 1:04.0 | unleashing this toolbox to say that a lot of Jews are behaving inauthentically, |
| 1:09.6 | that they're not somehow reacting to their situation appropriately. |
| 1:12.9 | There's this idea that the Jew is created by the anti-Semite, |
| 1:17.7 | that they would have assimilated if it were not for the fact of anti-Semitism, |
| 1:23.5 | and that really all that they really have in common is that they're hated by people. |
| 1:28.5 | He calls them a historical that the foundation of the community isn't, it's not like the same |
| 1:33.6 | foundation that a Frenchman would have with a common history and the active engagement of Jews |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mark Linsenmayer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Mark Linsenmayer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.