<DIV><I>Exemplarity and Chosenness</I> is 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 universalism in thinking, without denying that all thinking is also idio
Exemplarity and Chosenness: Rosenzweig and Derrida on the Nation of Philosophy
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- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 289
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
This study looks at how the philosophies of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886โ1929) employ the figures of "exemplarity" and "chosenness" in order to address the tension between the universality of philosophical thinking and the particularity of nations, languages, and individual human experience.
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