Exemplarity and chosenness : Rosenzweig and Derrida on the nation of philosophy

✍ Scribed by Hollander, Dana; Rosenzweig, Franz; Derrida, Jacques

Publisher: Stanford University Press
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 260
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This study of the philosophies of Derrida and Rosenzweig explores how we may attempt to account for the possibility of philosophy, of universalism in thinking, without denying that all thinking is also idiomatic and particular. The book traces Derrida's interest in the topic, particularly his work on 'philosophical nationality'.

Abstract:

Presents a combined study of the philosophies of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) that explores the question: How may we account for the possibility of philosophy, of Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: On Rosenzweig's reception of the philosophy of Hermann Cohen : individuality, Jewish election, and the infinitesimal --
Derrida's early considerations of historicism and relativism --
Thematizations of language : between translatability and singularity --
On the philosophical ambition of cultural affirmation --
Nationality, Judaism, and the sacredness of language --
Time and history in Rosenzweig : from temporal existence to eternity --
Specters of messiah.

✦ Subjects

Rosenzweig, Franz, -- 1886-1929. Derrida, Jacques. PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern. Electronic books. Universalisme. Particularisme. Filosofie. Jodendom.

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