Jewish Studies
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Witnessing Witnessing (Paperback)
On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony Thomas TrezisePrice: $26.00Witnessing Witnessing focuses critical attention on those who receive the testimony of Holocaust survivors. Questioning the notion that traumatic experience is intrinsically unspeakable and that the Holocaust thus lies in a quasi-sacred realm beyond history, the book asks whether much current...
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Saintly Influence (Hardcover)
Edith Wyschogrod and the Possibilities of Philosophy of Religion Edited by Eric Boynton, and Martin KavkaPrice: $65.00Since the publication of her first book, Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics, in 1974-the first book about Levinas published in English-Edith Wyschogrod has been at the forefront of the fields of Continental philosophy and philosophy of religion. Her work has crossed many...
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Racial Fever (Paperback)
Freud and the Jewish Question Eliza SlavetPrice: $30.00What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical differences?
These questions are at the heart of Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish...
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Racial Fever (Hardcover)
Freud and the Jewish Question Eliza SlavetPrice: $85.00What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical differences?
These questions are at the heart of Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish...
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The Exorbitant (Paperback)
Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and Christians Edited by Kevin Hart, and Michael A. SignerPrice: $32.00We are exorbitant, and rightly so, when we cut any link we may have to cosmological powers. Levinas invites us to be exorbitant by distancing ourselves from visions of metaphysics, epistemology, and theology. We begin to listen well to Levinas when we hear him inviting us to break completely with...
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