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Table of Contents:

• Introduction: A reversal in perspective
• Part 1. The Jew-of-the-citizen. Naked singularity in the Shoah
• The unthinkable singularity
• The all-too-thinkable Shoah
• The unthought singularity
• The "universal" narrative of singularity
• Democracy's Jewish question : Sartre and Arendt
• Part 2. The man-of-the-citizen. The enigma of the democratic man
• The "crime of being born" : the obscenity of the native condition of men
• The hidden religion of modernity
• The memory controversy as a decoy
• Part 3. The Jew-of-the-man : the singular and the democratic universal. The enigma of Jewish singularity
• The enigma of the "people"
• Towards a new age in democracy?

Author/Creator:

Trigano, Shmuel

Languages:

English
French

Language Notes:

Item content: English
Translated from (original): French

Main Work:

Idéal démocratique à l'épreuve de la Shoa [by Trigano, S.] (English)

Related Series:

SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought

Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — Historiography

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — Moral and ethical aspects

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — Causes

Jews — Identity

Jewish philosophy

Democracy

Jews — Politics and government

Jews — Intellectual life

Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)

1939-1945

War — Causes

Jews

Historiography

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from the French.

Physical Description:

329 pages ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

D804.348 .T7513 2009

ISBNs:

9781438426297 (hardcover, alk. paper)
1438426291 (hardcover, alk. paper)
9781438426303 (pbk.)
1438426305 (pbk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009005427

OCLC Numbers:

276340226