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Hammerschlag, Sarah

 
9780226315126: The Figural Jew: Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought
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ISBN 10 : 0226315126 ISBN 13 : 9780226315126
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2010

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sarah Hammerschlag is the John Nuveen Professor of Religion and Literature at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her books include Devotion: Three Inquiries in Religion, Literature, and Political Imagination and The Figural Jew: Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226315126
ISBN 13 
9780226315126
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
308
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