A Just Man

My generation lived somewhat in the shadow of Anti-Semite and Jew. That the Jew is the inauthentic being par excellence, essentially defined by the glance of the other, independently without substance, and without project, seemed to us a kind of injustice, as well as a challenge launched at our being, even if it was accompanied by a warm generosity. And, of course, there were those among us who assimilated this book to a tradition within Western philosophy for which the Jew is the antithesis of freedom and of the advent. Others, on the other hand, made use of this definition that assured them of a moral and philosophical silence that they found gratifying

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