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 »Judentümer«
Fragen für Jacques Derrida
Herausgegeben von Joseph
Cohen und Raphael
Zagury-Orly
Europäische Verlagsanstalt,
2007
Mit Beiträgen von :
Jacques Derrida
Jürgen Habermas
Hélène Cixous
Jean-Luc Nancy
Michal Ben Naftali
Moshé Idel
Catherine Malabou
Blandine Kriegel
Betty Rojtman
Gianni Vattimo
Gérard Bensussan
Joseph Cohen/Raphael
Zagury-Orly
Stéphane Habib
Gil Anidjar
Hent de Vries
Judentümer – Fragen für
Jacques Derrida ist in
mehrfacher Hinsicht ein
einzigartiges Buch: Jacques
Derrida, der Herkunft nach
algerischer Jude und die
bedeutendste Gestalt im
französischen Geistesleben
der letzten Jahrzehnte, hat
sich kaum einmal so explizit
auf die eigene Biographie
bezogen wie in seinem
Beitrag zu diesem Band und
gibt zugleich in der
»Dekonstruktion« seines
eigenen Judentums ein
besonders zugängliches
Beispiel seines
philosophischen Vorgehens.
Die weiteren Beiträge von
Mitstreitern wie
Kontrahenten, darunter
Hélène Cixous, Jean-Luc
Nancy, Gianni Vattimo und
Jürgen Habermas, sind – auf
dieser großen Konferenz
wenige Jahre vor seinem Tod,
aus der der Band hervorging
– eine intellektuelle
Hommage an Denkweise,
ethische Absicht und
jüdische Wurzeln Jacques
Derridas.
Judeities:
Questions for Jacques
Derrida
by Bettina Bergo (Editor,
Translator), Michael B.
Smith (Translator)
Fordham University Press (15
May 2007)
Invited to answer questions
about his relationship to
Judaism, Jacques Derrida
spoke through Franz Kafka:
"As for myself, I could
imagine another Abraham."
From the experience of a
summons that surprises us
and prompts the query "Who,
me?", Derrida explores the
movement between growing up
Jewish, "becoming Jewish,"
and "Jewish being" or
existence. His essay "The
Other Abraham" appears here
in English for the first
time. We no longer confront
"Judaism" but "judeity,"
multiple Judaisms and
Jewishnesses, manifold ways
of being and writing as a
Jew - in Derrida's case, as
a French-speaking Algerian
deprived of, then restored
to French nationality in the
1940s. What is it to be a
Jew and a philosopher? How
has the notion of "Jewish
identity" been written into
and across Jewish
literature, Jewish thought,
and Jewish languages? Here,
distinguished scholars
address these questions,
contrasting Derrida's
thought with philosophical
predecessors such as
Rosenzweig, Levinas, Celan,
and Scholem, and tracing
confluences between
deconstruction and Kabbalah.
Derrida's relationship to
the universalist aspirations
in contemporary theology is
also discussed, and his late
autobiographical writings
are evaluated. This
multifaceted volume aims to
open the question of
Jewishness, above all, to
hold it open as a question,
though not one of practical
or theoretical identity. As
much a contestation of
identity as a profound
reflection on what it means
today to seek, elude, and
finally to wrestle with the
significance of "being-jew,"
Judeities invites us to
revisit the human condition
in the twenty-first century.
The contributors are: Michal
Ben Naftali, Gerard
Bensussan, Helene Cixous,
Joseph Cohen, Jacques
Derrida, Jurgen Habermas,
Moshe Idel, Jean-Luc Nancy,
Gianni Vattimo, Hent de
Vries, and Raphael
Zagury-Orly.
En français :
Judéités : Questions pour
Jacques Derrida, sous la
direction de Joseph Cohen et
de Raphaël Zagury-Orly,
Galilée, "La philosophie en
effet", 2003.
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