Broken tablets : Levinas, Derrida and the literary afterlife of religion
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2016
- xxiv, 243 p. ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Over a span of thirty years, twentieth-century French philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida held a conversation across texts. Sharing a Jewish heritage and a background in phenomenology, both came to situate their work at the margins of philosophy, articulating this placement through religion and literature. Chronicling the interactions between these thinkers, Sarah Hammerschlag argues that the stakes in their respective positions were more than philosophical. They were also political. Levinas's investments were born out in his writings on Judaism and ultimately in an evolving conv.
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Literary criticism Deconstruction Judaism Religion Aspern Papers Benoit Peeters Blanchot Christian existentialism Deucalion Edmond Jabes Fordham University Heidegger Jacques Derrida Jean Wahl Levinas-Derrida alliance Mourice Blanchot Paul Celan Totality, Infinity Violence, metaphysics Writing, Difference