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Zusatztext "Dana Hollander's Exemplarity and Chosenness represents a major contribution to the study of Derrida and Rosenzweig and the rapidly expanding field of new religio-philosophical studies. The scholarship represented here is extraordinary in both range and depth. Hollander's ability to draw subtle and profound connections between texts is remarkable. Her fine analytic and literary readings produce strong new insights and original formulations of the problematics of nationalism, universalism, and exemplarity. This is a book that must be read by anyone interested in Jewish Studies, religion and philosophy, or critical theory today." Informationen zum Autor Dana Hollander holds the Canada Research Chair in Modern Jewish Thought at the Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University. Her areas of research are continental philosophy, modern Jewish thought, and German-Jewish studies. She is the translator of Jacob Taubes's The Political Theology of Paul (Stanford, 2004). Klappentext This study looks at how the philosophies of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) employ the figures of "exemplarity" and "chosenness" in order to address the tension between the universality of philosophical thinking and the particularity of nations, languages, and individual human experience. Zusammenfassung This study looks at how the philosophies of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) employ the figures of "exemplarity" and "chosenness" in order to address the tension between the universality of philosophical thinking and the particularity of nations, languages, and individual human experience.
