The figural Jew politics and identity in postwar French thought /

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Main Author: Hammerschlag, Sarah
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Series:Religion and postmodernism.
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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.