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Judeities

Questions for Jacques Derrida

by Bettina Bergo, Joseph Cohen

  • Paperback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • 16.1 x 22.9 x 1.9 cm

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Invited to answer questions about his relationship to Judaism, Jacques Derrida spoke through Franz Kafka: "As for myself, I could imagine another Abraham." From the experience of a summons that surprises us and prompts the query "Who, me?", Derrida explores the movement between growing up Jewish, "becoming Jewish," and "Jewish being" or existence. His essay "The Other Abraham" appears here in English for the first time. We no longer confront "Judaism" but "judeity," multiple Judaisms and Jewishnesses, manifold ways of being and writing as a Jew - in Derrida's 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 "Jewish identity" been written into and across Jewish literature, Jewish thought, and Jewish languages? Here, distinguished scholars address these questions, contrasting Derrida's thought with philosophical predecessors such as Rosenzweig, Levinas, Celan, and Scholem, and tracing confluences between deconstruction and Kabbalah.Derrida's 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 "being-jew," Judeities invites us to revisit the human condition in the twenty-first century. The contributors are: Michal Ben Naftali, Gerard Bensussan, Helene Cixous, Joseph Cohen, Jacques Derrida, Jurgen Habermas, Moshe Idel, Jean-Luc Nancy, Gianni Vattimo, Hent de Vries, and Raphael Zagury-Orly.
Judeities and The Mystic Fable
The Mystic FableJudeities

  • Authors

    Bettina Bergo +2

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Fordham University Press

  • Published

    June 2007

  • Weight

    409g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    16.1 x 22.9 x 1.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780823226429

  • ISBN-10

    0823226425

  • Eden Code

    1227341

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