TY - BOOK AU - Hammerschlag,Sarah ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The figural Jew: politics and identity in postwar French thought T2 - Religion and postmodernism SN - 9780226315119 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - B2421 .H25 2010eb U1 - 194 22 PY - 2010/// KW - Blanchot, Maurice. KW - Derrida, Jacques. KW - Lacuteevinas, Emmanuel. KW - Sartre, Jean-Paul, KW - Jewish philosophy KW - France KW - 20th century KW - Philosophy, French KW - Jews KW - Identity KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alfaisal/Doc?id=10389581 ER -