Exemplarity and Chosenness: Rosenzweig and Derrida on the Nation of Philosophy - Hardcover

by Dana Hollander (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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).