In the wake of the Dreyfus affair and the Shoah, many French intellectuals have maintained rich and complex relationships with Judaism, beyond as well as within the religious dimension. Whether they approach it via history, philosophy, biblical studies or sociology, or following a personal itinerary, many contemporary intellectuals are deeply involved in Jewish culture.
Interviewed at length by Elisabeth Weber, this volume presents the meditations of seven well-known French thinkers on the special relations of their own intellectual pursuit to Judaism. As memory or as the place of "circumfession" (in Jacques Derrida's words), as the symbol of the "unrepresentable" (Jean-François Lyotard) or as the witness, according to Emmanuel Levinas, to a "biblical humanity," Judaism is continually engaged in renewing and displacing contemporary thought.
The volume includes interviews with: Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Jacques Derrida, Rita Thalmann, Emmanuel Levinas, Léon Poliakov, Jean-François Lyotard, and Luc Rosenzweig.
| ISBN: | 9780804742191 |
| Publication date: | 23rd July 2004 |
| Author: | Jacques Derrida, Elisabeth Weber |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 167 pages |
| Series: | Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Genres: |
European history |
In the wake of the Dreyfus affair and the Shoah, many French intellectuals have maintained rich and complex relationships with Judaism, beyond as well as within the religious dimension. Whether they approach it via history, philosophy, biblical studies or sociology, or following a personal itinerary, many contemporary intellectuals are deeply involved in Jewish culture.
Questioning Judaism features in the following genres: European history
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Questioning Judaism was written by Jacques Derrida, Elisabeth Weber and published by Stanford University Press
Questioning Judaism has 167 pages
Yes it is part of Cultural Memory in the Present series