LEADER 03501nam 2200613 450 001 9910466009303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-54213-5 024 7 $a10.7312/hamm17058 035 $a(CKB)3710000000776211 035 $a(EBL)4588199 035 $a(OCoLC)956139487 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4588199 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001666786 035 $a(DE-B1597)479863 035 $a(OCoLC)979574043 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231542135 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4588199 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11242239 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL986034 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000776211 100 $a20160824h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBroken tablets $eLevinas, Derrida and the literary afterlife of religion /$fSarah Hammerschlag ; cover design, Lisa Hamm 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2016. 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource (270 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-17058-0 311 $a0-231-17059-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $t1. "What Must a Jewish Thinker Be?" -- $t2. Levinas, Literature, and The Ruin of The World -- $t3. Between The Jew and Writing -- $t4. To Lose One's Head: Literature and The Democracy to Come -- $t5. Literature and The Politicaltheological Remains -- $tEpilogue: "There is Not a Pin to Choose Between Us" -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aOver a span of thirty years, twentieth-century French philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida held a conversation across texts. Sharing a Jewish heritage and a background in phenomenology, both came to situate their work at the margins of philosophy, articulating this placement through religion and literature. Chronicling the interactions between these thinkers, Sarah Hammerschlag argues that the stakes in their respective positions were more than philosophical. They were also political. Levinas's investments were born out in his writings on Judaism and ultimately in an evolving conviction that the young state of Israel held the best possibility for achieving such an ideal. For Derrida, the Jewish question was literary. The stakes of Jewish survival could only be approached through reflections on modern literature's religious legacy, a line of thinking that provided him the means to reconceive democracy. Hammerschlag's reexamination of Derrida and Levinas's textual exchange not only produces a new account of this friendship but also has significant ramifications for debates within Continental philosophy, the study of religion, and political theology. 606 $3(DE-601)105655740$3(DE-588)4136677-3$aJüdische Philosophie$2gnd 606 $3(DE-601)106245015$3(DE-588)4035964-5$aLiteratur$2gnd 606 $aPHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aJüdische Philosophie 615 7$aLiteratur 615 7$aPHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction. 676 $a194 700 $aHammerschlag$b Sarah$0869377 702 $aHamm$b Lisa 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466009303321 996 $aBroken tablets$92471581 997 $aUNINA