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"Philosopher Lévinas, novelist and essayist Blanchot, poet Jabès, all three constitute the rich intellectual soil from which more visible thinkers such as Derrida and Foucault have emerged. . . . A user-friendly essay on a very difficult subject. . . . All students of literary theory will want to have this book."--Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania"Among the best things written in English on [these writers]. . . . Presents a lucid and intelligent reading of all three authors, centering on their relationships to Jewish themes and concerns. It demonstrates the intimacy and near-complicity that connects them, but also the distance that separates them from one another. . . . A major work of scholarship."--Steven Shaviro, University of WashingtonIn the first critical study to consider together the work of Emmanuel Lévinas (Lithuanian Jew, philosopher), Maurice Blanchot (French Catholic, novelist and literary theorist), and Edmond Jabès (Egyptian Jew, poet), Gary D. Mole demonstrates and compares the ways in which these writers have been instrumental in raising those issues of Jewishness that have been so central to contemporary postmodern thought.The questions of writing and

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Author

Gary D Mole; NetLibrary, Inc

Publisher

Gainesville : University Press Of Florida, C1997.

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813022031

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Philosophy, History