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Is Theory Good for the Jews.

By looking back to the emergence of a postwar theoretical discourse on trauma, memory, victims, suffering, the Holocaust and the Jews, Is Theory Good for the Jews? explores how ""French thought"" is implicated in intellectual, literary and ideological components of the global and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chaouat, Bruno
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Liverpool University Press, 2016.
Colección:Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures LUP.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Prologue: A Farewell to Theory; Introduction: Is Theory Good for the Jews?; 1 Specters of Heidegger; 2 The Moralistic Turn: Radical Social Critique, Literary Terror, and Antisemitism after Toulouse; 3 Dangerous Parallels: The Holocaust, the Colonial Turn, and the New Antisemitism; 4 Theory's Operation Shylock; Divertimento; Part I: Antisemitism Denial; Intermezzo: Have French Jews Turned to the Right?; Part II: Jew-Splitting in Judith Butler's Parting Ways; Postscript: Theorizing Antisemitic Laughter; Envoy: Adieu to France?; Index Nominium.