
Overview
- Uniform Title
- Idéal démocratique à l'épreuve de la Shoa. English
- Series
- SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought
SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought. - Format
- Book
- Published
- Albany : SUNY Press, [2009]
©2009 - Contents
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Introduction: A reversal in perspective
Part 1. The Jew-of-the-citizen. Naked singularity in the Shoah
The unthinkable singularity
The all-too-thinkable Shoah
The unthought singularity
The "universal" narrative of singularity
Democracy's Jewish question : Sartre and Arendt
Part 2. The man-of-the-citizen. The enigma of the democratic man
The "crime of being born" : the obscenity of the native condition of men
The hidden religion of modernity
The memory controversy as a decoy
Part 3. The Jew-of-the-man : the singular and the democratic universal. The enigma of Jewish singularity
The enigma of the "people"
Towards a new age in democracy? - Notes
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Translated from the French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: A reversal in perspective -- Part 1. The Jew-of-the-citizen. Naked singularity in the Shoah -- The unthinkable singularity -- The all-too-thinkable Shoah -- The unthought singularity -- The "universal" narrative of singularity -- Democracy's Jewish question : Sartre and Arendt -- Part 2. The man-of-the-citizen. The enigma of the democratic man -- The "crime of being born" : the obscenity of the native condition of men -- The hidden religion of modernity -- The memory controversy as a decoy -- Part 3. The Jew-of-the-man : the singular and the democratic universal. The enigma of Jewish singularity -- The enigma of the "people" -- Towards a new age in democracy?
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781438426297
1438426291 - Physical Description
- 329 pages ; 24 cm.
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