Hammerschlag Broken Tablets

Levinas, Derrida, and the Literary Afterlife of Religion
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-231-54213-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Over thirty years, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida conversed across texts about the interrelation of philosophy, religion and literature. In Broken Tablets, Sarah Hammerschlag traces that conversation and argues for its political significance, highlighting the role that Judaism played in their relationship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hammerschlag, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. "What Must a Jewish Thinker Be?"
2. Levinas, Literature, and the Ruin of the World
3. Between the Jew and Writing
4. To Lose One's Head: Literature and the Democracy to Come
5. Literature and the Political-Theological Remains
Epilogue: "There Is Not a Pin to Choose Between Us"
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Hammerschlag is associate professor of religion and literature at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the author of The Figural Jew: Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought (2010).