| Description |
1 online resource (191 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Jewish Studies Series |
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Routledge Jewish studies series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: Alexandria Revisited; 1 Are There Criteria for Defining Jewishness in Jewish Thought?; 2 Spectres of Abraham; 3 Another Abraham, Another Sarah: Heinrich Heine's The Rabbi of Bacherach; 4 Lévinas, Judaism, Heidegger; 5 To Pass on Justice Infinitely: The Jew and the Greek; 6 Can Justice Hide Betrayal? Lévinas's Discussion with Freud; 7 From Therapy to Redemption: Notes Towards a Messianic Psychoanalysis |
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8 Justice at the Tip of the Tongue: Antinomies and Possibilities of Messianic Justice in Walter Benjamin's Work9 The Impossible Community: Privative Judgments in Blanchot, Lévinas and Nancy; 10 "Not Mutually Exclusive": Derrida and Agamben read Kafka's Before the Law; 11 Profane Redemptions: Messianism at Play in Agamben; 12 Deconstruction between Judaism and Christianity; 13 Christian Theology, Anti-Liberalism, and Modern Jewish Thought; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Terms |
| Summary |
The central aim of this collection is to trace the presence of Jewish tradition in contemporary philosophy. This presence is, on the one hand, undeniable, manifesting itself in manifold allusions and influences - on the other hand, difficult to define, rarely referring to openly revealed Judaic sources. Following the recent tradition of Lévinas and Derrida, this book tentatively refers to this mode of presence in terms of ""traces of Judaism"" and the contributors grapple with the following questions: What are these traces and how can we track them down? Is there such a thing |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Lipszyc, Adam
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| ISBN |
9781317811619 |
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1317811615 |
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