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Book Title
The Figural Jew: Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought,
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226315126
ISBN-13
9780226315126
eBay Product ID (ePID)
77487859

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
312 Pages
Publication Name
Figural Jew : Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought
Language
English
Subject
Movements / Deconstruction, Judaism / History, Individual Philosophers, Judaism / General, Movements / Existentialism, Religious, History & Surveys / Modern
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Author
Sarah Hammerschlag
Subject Area
Religion, Philosophy
Series
Religion and Postmodernism Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.1 in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in

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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2009-026828
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
194
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Roots, Rootlessness, and Fin de Siècle France 2. Stranger and Self: Sartre's Jew I. Anti-Semite and Jew II. Dialectical History, Unhappy Consciousness, and the Messiah 3. The Ethics of Uprootedness: Emmanuel Levinas's Postwar Project 4. Literary Unrest: Maurice Blanchot's Rewriting of Levinas 5. "The Last of the Jews": Jacques Derrida and the Case of the Figure I. The Cut II. The Exemplar Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index
Synopsis
The rootless Jew, wandering disconnected from history, homeland, and nature, was often the target of early twentieth-century nationalist rhetoric aimed against modern culture. But following World War II, a number of prominent French philosophers recast this maligned figure in positive terms, and in so doing transformed postwar conceptions of politics and identity. Sarah Hammerschlag explores this figure of the Jew from its prewar usage to its resuscitation by Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, and Jacques Derrida. Sartre and Levinas idealized the Jew's rootlessness in order to rethink the foundations of political identity. Blanchot and Derrida, in turn, used the figure of the Jew to call into question the very nature of group identification. By chronicling this evolution in thinking, Hammerschlag ultimately reveals how the figural Jew can function as a critical mechanism that exposes the political dangers of mythic allegiance, whether couched in universalizing or particularizing terms. Both an intellectual history and a philosophical argument, The Figural Jew will set the agenda for all further consideration of Jewish identity, modern Jewish thought, and continental philosophy.
LC Classification Number
B2421.H25 2010

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