The Democratic Ideal and the Shoah: The Unthought in Political Modernity

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An original and revolutionary interpretation of the Jews' destiny in modern politics.

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Introduction A Reversal in Perspective	p. 1
The Jew-of-the-Citizen	p. 13
Naked Singularity in the Shoah	p. 15
The Unthinkable Singularity	p. 27
The All-Too-Thinkable Shoah	p. 47
The Unthought Singularity	p. 71
The "Universal" Narrative of Singularity	p. 85
Democracy's Jewish Question: Sartre and Arendt	p. 101
The Man-of-the-Citizen	p. 147
The Enigma of the Democratic Man	p. 149
The "Crime of Being Born": The Obscenity of the Native Condition of Men	p. 175
The Hidden Religion of Modernity	p. 203
The Memory Controversy as a Decoy	p. 237
The Jew-of-the-Man: The Singular and the Democratic Universal	p. 249
The Enigma of Jewish Singularity	p. 251
The Enigma of the "People"	p. 263
Toward a New Age in Democracy?	p. 271
Notes	p. 295
Index	p. 323
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