Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and index
Introduction -- Roots, rootlessness, and fin de siecle France -- Stranger and self: Sartre’s Jew -- Anti-Semite and Jew -- Dialectical history, unhappy consciousness, and the Messiah -- The ethics of uprootedness: Emmanuel Levinas’s postwar project -- Literary unrest: Maurice Blanchot’s rewriting of Levinas --"The Last of the Jews": Jacques Derrida and the case of the figure -- The cut -- The exemplar -- Conclusion.
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