Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Roots, Rootlessness, and Fin de Siècle France 25
6. 2. Stranger and Self: Sartre’s Jew 68
7. 3. The Ethics of Uprootedness: Emmanuel Levinas’s Postwar Project 117
8. 4. Literary Unrest: Maurice Blanchot’s Rewriting of Levinas 166
9. 5. “The Last of the Jews”: Jacques Derrida and the Case of the Figure 201
10. Conclusion 261
11. Selected Bibliography 269
12. Index 287