Judeities: Questions for Jacques Derrida

by Joseph Cohen, Bettina Bergo, Raphael Zagury-Orly, et al.

Book Overview

Invited to answer questions about his relationship to Judaism, Jacques Derrida spoke through Franz Kafka: "As for myself, I could imagine another Abraham." He explores the movement between growing up Jewish, "becoming Jewish," and "Jewish being" or existence. In his essay "The Other Abraham," which appears here in English for the first time, he imagines other Abrahams in light of the proclaimed universalism of philosophy and its recent fragmentation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823226425
• ISBN13: 9780823226429
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"