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Author Trigano, Shmuel.

Title The democratic ideal and the Shoah : the unthought in political modernity / Shmuel Trigano ; translated by Gila Walker
Published Albany : SUNY Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (329 pages)
Series SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought
SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought.
Contents 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?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the French
English
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Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes.
Jews -- Identity.
Jewish philosophy.
Democracy.
Jews -- Politics and government.
Jews -- Intellectual life.
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
Democracy
Ethics
Historiography
Jewish philosophy
Jews -- Identity
Jews -- Intellectual life
Jews -- Politics and government
War -- Causes
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781441615794
1441615792
Other Titles Idéal démocratique à l'épreuve de la Shoa. English