Hammerschlag, Sarah.

The figural Jew politics and identity in postwar French thought / [electronic resource] : Sarah Hammerschlag. - Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010. - x, 298 p. - Religion and postmodernism . - Religion and postmodernism. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and index.

Introduction -- Roots, rootlessness, and fin de sigraveecle 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.


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9780226315119 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780226315126 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226315118 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0226315126 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780226315133 (e-book)




Blanchot, Maurice.
Derrida, Jacques.
Lacuteevinas, Emmanuel.
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.


Jewish philosophy--France--20th century.
Philosophy, French--20th century.
Jews--Identity.


Electronic books.

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