The democratic ideal and the Shoah
Subtitle: the unthought in political modernity
By: Shmuel Trigano ; translated by Gila Walker.
Series: SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9781438426297
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes; Jews -- Identity; Philosophy, Jewish; Democracy; Jews -- Politics and government; Jews -- Intellectual life
Work titles: Idéal démocratique à l'épreuve de la Shoa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A reversal in perspective; title: pt. 1. The Jew-of-the-citizen; title: Naked singularity in the Shoah; title: The unthinkable singularity; title: The all too thinkable Shoah; title: The unthought singularity; title: The "universal" narrative of singularity; title: Democracy's Jewish question : Sartre and Arendt; title: pt. 2. The man-of-the-citizen; title: The enigma of the democratic man; title: The "crime of being born"; title: The hidden religion of modernity; title: The memory controversy as a lure; title: pt . 3. The Jew-of-the-man; title: The enigma of Jewish singularity; title: The enigma of the "people"; title: Towards a new age in democracy?