Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a young Jewish saint / Hélène Cixous ; translated by Beverley Bie Brahic.
"In Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint French feminist philosopher Helene Cixous follows the intertwined threads of Jewishness and non-Jewishness that play through the life and works of one of the greatest living philosophers." "Cixous is a lifelong friend of Derrida....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2004]
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| Series: | European perspectives.
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| Summary: | "In Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint French feminist philosopher Helene Cixous follows the intertwined threads of Jewishness and non-Jewishness that play through the life and works of one of the greatest living philosophers." "Cixous is a lifelong friend of Derrida. They both grew up as French Jews in Algeria and share a "belonging constituted of exclusion and non-belonging" - not Algerian, rejected by France, their Jewishness concealed or acculturated. In Derrida's family "one never said 'circumcision' but 'baptism,' not 'Bar Mitzvah' but 'communion.'" Judaism cloaked in Catholicism is one example of the undecidability of identity that influenced the thinker whom Cixous calls a "Jewish Saint.""--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 136 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-136). |
| ISBN: | 023112824X 9780231128247 |