After October 7: the Palestinian question and the Jewish question
Two months after 7 October, Bruno Karsenti describes the turning point that such an event represents for Israel and the Diaspora. An existential coordinate of...
Bruno Karsenti
Bruno Karsenti is a philosopher and Director of Studies at the EHESS. At the intersection of political philosophy and social sciences, he seeks to rethink modern Europe through the lens of its minorities, particularly the Jewish experience. A significant part of his work addresses the relationship between Judaism, emancipation, and citizenship, as well as how Jewish presence and the post-Holocaust condition reshape the European political narrative.
Articles by Bruno Karsenti
Israel is fighting more than one battle
As conditions for the population of Gaza worsen and the fate of the hostages in the hands of Hamas remains in abeyance, the legitimate call...
Habermas : Jews, Europe, and philosophy
A major figure in global intellectual debate, Jürgen Habermas is the author of a monumental body of philosophical work that can be read as the...
The demon of Apartheid. Can there be another left discourse on Israel?
In France, a resolution tabled by Communist deputy Jean-Paul Lecoq to condemn "the institutionalization by the State of Israel of a regime of apartheid" was...
The Israeli crisis as an opportunity
The crisis in Israel and the struggle for democracy that it is manifesting, among Israelis as well as within the Diaspora, has at least the...
Israel, 2023 : What We Hold on
Examining the political situation that is inflaming Israel, Bruno Karsenti gives an account of the multiple fractures that deeply divide the populations living in the...
Home is where you are? Israel on the edge of Zionism
“Welcome to Israel, we are the homeowners.” It was with these words that the most aggressive form of nationalism once again reared its head in...
Identity wounds: Vienna 1900 and us
Vienna, 1900: the Austro-Hungarian Empire declines. Its German neighbor overshadows it, and the social mobility of the previous decades comes to a halt. In 1984,...
Fire in the House: The French Left, Anti-Zionism and the Critique of Israel
Last month, a group of almost three dozen members of the lower house of the French Parliament, the National Assembly, introduced a resolution labeling Israel...
Why Europe? What Dubnow allows us to see
Simon Dubnow (1860-1941) was a historian-sociologist - died in the Riga ghetto - who made the history of the Jews a history of the mutations...
Roger Errera: The Gaze of the Diaspora
The "Diaspora" collection, founded by Roger Errera in 1971 at the French publishing house Éditions Calman-Levy, has been decisive in more than one way for...
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Jews of France
France was the first of the European countries to emancipate the Jews. The revolutionaries’ promise of freedom and equality for every Jew was not always...