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The figural Jew : politics and identity in postwar French thought /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hammerschlag, Sarah
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Series:Religion and postmodernism.
Subjects:
Jewish philosophy > France > 20th century.
Philosophy, French > 20th century.
Jews > Identity.
Blanchot, Maurice.
Derrida, Jacques.
Lévinas, Emmanuel.
Sartre, Jean-Paul, > 1905-1980.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Roots, rootlessness, and fin de siècle France
  • Stranger and self: Sartre's Jew
  • Anti-Semite and Jew
  • Dialectical history, unhappy consciousness, and the Messiah
  • The ethics of uprootedness: Emmanuel Levinas's postwar project
  • Literary unrest: Maurice Blanchot's rewriting of Levinas
  • "The Last of the Jews": Jacques Derrida and the case of the figure
  • The cut
  • The exemplar
  • Conclusion.