Physical Description
x, 298 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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.
ISBN
9780226315119
9780226315126 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226315118 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0226315126 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and index.
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.
