Broken Tablets: Levinas, Derrida, and the Literary Afterlife of Religion
ISBN: 9780231542135
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
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Subjects: Lévinas Emmanuel; Derrida Jacques;

Over thirty years, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida conversed across texts about the interrelation of philosophy, religion and literature. In Broken Tablets , Sarah Hammerschlag traces that conversation and argues for its political significance, highlighting the role that Judaism played in their relationship.

Sarah Hammerschlag is associate professor of religion and literature at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the author of The Figural Jew: Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought (2010).

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