The figural Jew
Subtitle: politics and identity in postwar French thought
By: Sarah Hammerschlag.
Series: Religion and postmodernism; Religion and postmodernism
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226315119; 9780226315126
Subjects: Blanchot, Maurice; Derrida, Jacques; Lévinas, Emmanuel; Sartre, Jean-Paul, -- 1905-1980; Jewish philosophy -- France -- 20th century; Philosophy, French -- 20th century; Jews -- Identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Roots, rootlessness, and fin de siècle France; title: Stranger and self: Sartre's Jew; title: Anti-Semite and Jew; title: Dialectical history, unhappy consciousness, and the Messiah; title: The ethics of uprootedness: Emmanuel Levinas's postwar project; title: Literary unrest: Maurice Blanchot's rewriting of Levinas; title: "The Last of the Jews": Jacques Derrida and the case of the figure; title: The cut; title: The exemplar; title: Conclusion.