The democratic ideal and the Shoah : the unthought in political modernity / Shmuel Trigano ; translated by Gila Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trigano, Shmuel.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought

Standardized Title:

Idéal démocratique à l'épreuve de la Shoa. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Historiography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Causes.

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Jewish philosophy.

Democracy.

Jews--Politics and government.

Jews--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

329 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, [2009]

Contents:

Introduction: A reversal in perspective

Part 1. The Jew-of-the-citizen. Naked singularity in the Shoah

The unthinkable singularity

The all-too-thinkable Shoah

The unthought singularity

The "universal" narrative of singularity

Democracy's Jewish question : Sartre and Arendt

Part 2. The man-of-the-citizen. The enigma of the democratic man

The "crime of being born" : the obscenity of the native condition of men

The hidden religion of modernity

The memory controversy as a decoy

Part 3. The Jew-of-the-man : the singular and the democratic universal. The enigma of Jewish singularity

The enigma of the "people"

Towards a new age in democracy?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the French.

ISBN:

9781438426297

1438426291

OCLC:

276340226