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The figural Jew [[electronic resource] ] : politics and identity in postwar French thought / / Sarah Hammerschlag



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Autore: Hammerschlag Sarah Visualizza persona
Titolo: The figural Jew [[electronic resource] ] : politics and identity in postwar French thought / / Sarah Hammerschlag Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
Disciplina: 194
Soggetto topico: Jewish philosophy - France - 20th century
Philosophy, French - 20th century
Jews - Identity
Soggetto non controllato: political, politician, wartime, france, thinker, intellectual, philosophy, philosophical, philosopher, academic, scholarly, research, jewish, judaism, religion, religious, faith, belief, homeland, history, historical, nature, 20th, century, nationalist, nationalism, rhetoric, modern, culture, cultural, bias, wwii, prewar, literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Roots, rootlessness, and fin de siècle 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The figural Jew  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-226-31513-4
9786612584787
1-282-58478-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910791356603321
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Serie: Religion and postmodernism.