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The democratic ideal and the Shoah : the unthought in political modernity / Shmuel Trigano ; translated by Gila Walker. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trigano, Shmuel.
- Series:
- SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought.
- SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought
- Standardized Title:
- Idéal démocratique à l'épreuve de la Shoa. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish philosophy.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Causes.
- Jews--Identity.
- Jews.
- Democracy.
- Jews--Politics and government.
- Jews--Intellectual life.
- Jewish philosophy--Politics and government.
- Democracy--Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : SUNY Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- 1-4384-2644-5
- 1-4416-1579-2
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