LEADER 03713nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910458316403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-226-31513-4 010 $a9786612584787 010 $a1-282-58478-2 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226315133 035 $a(CKB)2560000000013270 035 $a(EBL)534583 035 $a(OCoLC)635292239 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000417708 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11259688 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000417708 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10368428 035 $a(PQKB)10831007 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122969 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC534583 035 $a(DE-B1597)523433 035 $a(OCoLC)649906225 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226315133 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL534583 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10389581 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL258478 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000013270 100 $a20090629d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe figural Jew$b[electronic resource] $epolitics and identity in postwar French thought /$fSarah Hammerschlag 210 $aChicago ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (310 p.) 225 1 $aReligion and postmodernism 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-31512-6 311 $a0-226-31511-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Roots, rootlessness, and fin de sie?cle 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. 330 $aThe rootless Jew, wandering disconnected from history, homeland, and nature, was often the target of early twentieth-century nationalist rhetoric aimed against modern culture. But following World War II, a number of prominent French philosophers recast this maligned figure in positive terms, and in so doing transformed postwar conceptions of politics and identity. Sarah Hammerschlag explores this figure of the Jew from its prewar usage to its resuscitation by Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, and Jacques Derrida. Sartre and Levinas idealized the Jew's rootlessness in order to rethink the foundations of political identity. Blanchot and Derrida, in turn, used the figure of the Jew to call into question the very nature of group identification. By chronicling this evolution in thinking, Hammerschlag ultimately reveals how the figural Jew can function as a critical mechanism that exposes the political dangers of mythic allegiance, whether couched in universalizing or particularizing terms. Both an intellectual history and a philosophical argument, The Figural Jew will set the agenda for all further consideration of Jewish identity, modern Jewish thought, and continental philosophy. 410 0$aReligion and postmodernism. 606 $aJewish philosophy$zFrance$y20th century 606 $aPhilosophy, French$y20th century 606 $aJews$xIdentity 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJewish philosophy 615 0$aPhilosophy, French 615 0$aJews$xIdentity. 676 $a194 700 $aHammerschlag$b Sarah$0869377 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458316403321 996 $aThe figural Jew$91940983 997 $aUNINA