Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust

Elhanan Yakira is currently Schulman Professor of Philosophy at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and holds his doctorate from the Sorbonne in France. His publications include Nécessité, Contrainte et Choix - la métaphysique de la liberté chez Spinoza et Leibniz (1989), La causalité de Galilée à Kant (1994), Shlomo Ben Ami: Quel avenir pour Israël? (with Jeffrey Barash and Yves-Charles Zarka, 2001) and Leibniz's Theory of the Rational (with E. Grosholz, 1998). He also translated Liebnitz's Discours de métaphysique et la correspondence avec Arnauld into Hebrew and edited Descartes' Meditations and other philosophical classics.

• Preface; 1. Holocaust denial and the left; 2. The Holocaust and the good Israelis; 3. On the political and the anti-political: Hannah Arendt, Eichmann, and Israel; 4. Post-script: 1967 or 1948?; Appendix. Biographical notes; Index.

'A book that has immense learning and moral and political passion in equal measure. Professor Yakira takes us deep into that consuming debate between Zionists and post-Zionists. Luminous intellectual history. His study of Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, and its legacy, is a brilliant piece of criticism. A timely and courageous book.' Fouad Ajami, The Johns Hopkins University