Questioning Judaism
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Questioning Judaism
（Cultural memory in the present）
Stanford University Press, 2004
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Jüdisches Denken in Frankreich
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Interviews originally conducted in French
Includes bibliographical references
Originally published: Jüdisches Denken in Frankreich. Frankfurt am Main : Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, 1994
Contents of Works
- Against the murderers of memory / Pierre Vidal-Naquet
- A testimony given ... / Jacques Derrida
- Women of resistance / Rita Thalmann
- Humanity is biblical / Emmanuel Levinas
- Humanity, nationality, bestiality / Léon Poliakov
- Before the law, after the law / Jean-François Lyotard
- Born in 1943 / Luc Rosenzweig
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Description
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-Francois 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, Leon Poliakov, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Luc Rosenzweig.
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