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Judeities - Questions for Jacques Derrida (Hardcover)
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Judeities - Questions for Jacques Derrida (Hardcover)
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Invited to answer questions about his relationship to Judaism,
Jacques Derrida spoke through Franz Kafka: aAs for myself, I could
imagine another Abraham.aFrom the experience of a summons that
surprises us and prompts the query aWho, me?a Derrida explores the
movement between growing up Jewish, abecoming Jewish, a and aJewish
beinga or existence. His essay aThe Other Abrahama appears here in
English for the first time. We no longer confront aJudaisma but
ajudeity, a multiple Judaisms and Jewishnesses, manifold ways of
being and writing as a Jewain Derridaas case, as a French-speaking
Algerian deprived of, then restored to French nationality in the
1940s. What is it to be a Jew and a philosopher? How has the notion
of aJewish identitya been written into and across Jewish
literature, Jewish thought, and Jewish languages? Here
distinguished scholars address these questions, contrasting
Derridaas thought with philosophical predecessors such as
Rosenzweig, Levinas, Celan, and Scholem, and tracing confluences
between deconstruction and Kabbalah. Derridaas relationship to the
universalist aspirations in contemporary theology is also
discussed, and his late autobiographical writings are evaluated.
This multifaceted volume aims to open the question of Jewishness,
above all, to hold it open as a question, though not one of
practical or theoretical identity. As much a contestation of
identity as a profound reflection on what it means today to seek,
elude, and finally to wrestle with the significance of abeing-jew,
a Judeities invites us to revisit the human condition in the
twenty-first century.
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