Book Summary
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
Book Details
| Book Name | The Figural Jew: Politics And Identity In Postwar French Thought |
| Author | Sarah Hammerschlag |
| Publisher | University Of Chicago Press (May 2010) |
| ISBN | 9780226315126 |
| Pages | 298 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 911 |
