Judeities : questions for Jacques Derrida / edited by Bettina Bergo, Joseph Cohen, and Raphael Zagury-Orly ; translated by Bettina Bergo and Michael B. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bergo, Bettina.

Cohen, Joseph D., 1971-

Zagury-Orly, Raphael.

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy

Standardized Title:

Judéités. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques--Congresses.

Derrida, Jacques.

Jews--Congresses.

Jews.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 279 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

Invited to answer questions about his relationship to Judaism, Jacques Derrida spoke through Franz Kafka: "As for myself, I could imagine another Abraham." From the experience of a summons that surprises us and prompts the query "Who, me?" Derrida explores the movement between growing up Jewish, "becoming Jewish," and "Jewish being" or existence. His essay "Abraham, the Other" appears here in English for the first time. We no longer confront "Judaism" but "judeity," multiple Judaisms and Jewishnesses, manifold ways of being and writing as a Jew-in Derrida's case, as a French-speaking Algerian deprived of, then restored to, French nationality in the 1940s. This multifaceted volume aims to open the question of Jewishness and, above all, to hold it open as a question, though not one of practical or theoretical identity. As much a contestation of identity as a profound reflection on what it means today to seek, elude, and finally to wrestle with the significance of "being-jew," Judeities invites us to revisit the human condition in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Abraham, the other / Jacques Derrida

The last, the remnant

: (Derrida and Rosenzweig) / Gérard Bensussan

This stranjew body / Hélène Cixous

The story of a friendship : the archive and the question of Palestine / Michal Ben Naftali

Jacques Derrida and kabbalistic sources / Moshe Idel

Historicity and différance / Gianni Vattimo

How to answer the ethical question / Jürgen Habermas

A monster of faithfulness / Joseph Cohen and Raphael Zagury-Orly

The shibboleth effect : on reading Paul Celan / Hent de Vries

The Judeo-Christian / Jean-Luc Nancy.

Notes:

International colloquium Judéités: questions pour Jacques Derrida, held at the Jewish Community Center, Paris, Dec. 3-5, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-279).

Translated from the French.

ISBN:

9780823226412

0823226417

9780823226429

0823226425

OCLC:

129950230