Questioning Judaism Interviews by Elisabeth Weber

Derrida, Jacques (Editor)/ Weber, Elisabeth (Editor)/ Levinas, Emmanuel (Contributor)/ Lyotard, Jean-Francois (Contributor)/ Poliskov, Leon (Contributor)/ Rosenzweig, Luc (Contributor)/ Thalmann, Rita (Contributor)/ Vidal-Naquet, Pierre (Contributor)/ Bowlby, Rachel (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0804742197 / ISBN 13: 9780804742191

Published by Stanford Univ Pr, 2004

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1st edition. 167 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Questioning Judaism Interviews by Elisabeth Weber
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804742197
• ISBN 13: 9780804742191
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.37 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Elisabeth Weber is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the editor of Jacques Derrida, Points . . . : Interviews 1974-1994 (Stanford, 1995).