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The figural Jew : politics and identity in postwar French thought / Sarah Hammerschlag.
LIBRA B2421 .H25 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hammerschlag, Sarah
- Series:
- Religion and postmodernism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish philosophy--France--20th century.
- Jewish philosophy.
- Philosophy, French--20th century.
- Philosophy, French.
- Jews--Identity.
- Jews.
- Blanchot, Maurice.
- Derrida, Jacques.
- Lévinas, Emmanuel.
- Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.
- Sartre, Jean-Paul.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- x, 298 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226315119
- 9780226315126
- 0226315118
- 0226315126
- OCLC:
- 426065850
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