Judeities: questions for Jacques Derrida

293 Pages·2007·1.448 MB·English

by  Bergo, Bettina;Cohen, Joseph D.;Derrida, Jacques;Zagury-Orly, Raphael

Judeities
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SeriesBoard
JamesBernauer
DrucillaCornell
ThomasR.Flynn
Kevin Hart
Jean-LucMarion
AdriaanPeperzak
RichardKearney
ThomasSheehan
HentdeVries
MeroldWestphal
Edith Wyschogrod
MichaelZimmerman
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John D. Caputo, series editor
PERSPECTIVESIN
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PHILOSOPHY
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Edited by
BETTINA BERGO,
JOSEPH COHEN, and
RAPHAEL ZAGURY-ORLY
Judeities
Questions for Jacques Derrida
TRANSLATED BY
BETTINA BERGO AND MICHAEL B. SMITH
FORDHAMUNIVERSITYPRESS
NewYork 2007
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SaveforHentdeVries,‘‘TheShibbolethEffect,’’theessaysinthisbookwere
originallypublishedinJude´ite´s:QuestionspourJacquesDerrida,ed.JosephCohenand
RaphaelZagury-Orly(cid:2)2003E´ditionsGalile´e,9,rueLinne´,75005Paris.
Copyright(cid:2)2007FordhamUniversityPress
Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedina
retrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans—electronic,
mechanical,photocopy,recording,oranyother—exceptforbriefquotationsin
printedreviews,withoutthepriorpermissionofthepublisher.
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Contents
Translators’Preface ix
PrefacetotheFrenchEdition xi
Abraham,theOther 1
JacquesDerrida
TheLast,theRemnant...:(DerridaandRosenzweig) 36
Ge´rardBensussan
ThisStranjewBody 52
He´le`neCixous
TheStoryofaFriendship:TheArchiveandtheQuestionof
Palestine 78
MichalBenNaftali
JacquesDerridaandKabbalisticSources 111
MosheIdel
HistoricityandDiffe´rance 131
GianniVattimo
HowtoAnswertheEthicalQuestion 142
Ju¨rgenHabermas
AMonsterofFaithfulness 155
JosephCohenandRaphaelZagury-Orly
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TheShibbolethEffect:OnReadingPaulCelan 175
HentdeVries
TheJudeo-Christian 214
Jean-LucNancy
Contributors 235
Notes 239
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Translators’ Preface
BETTINA BERGO AND
MICHAEL B. SMITH
For the English translation, we have preserved the neologism that
introduces Jude´ite´s: Questions pour Jacques Derrida. As Raphael Za-
gury-Orly and Joseph Cohen, the colloquium organizers, pointed
out, jude´ite´s refers to the multiplicity of ways of being and writing
‘‘jewishly,’’ or as a Jew: Judaism and Jewishness, today, in the di-
versityoftheirmultipleinterpretations,languages,nationalities,phi-
losophies, and literatures. Judeities unravels identifications, although
identification is not itself a simple, or fully conscious, decision. As
Derrida argues, being Jewish and Jewish-being entails ‘‘being’’
more and less than Jewish, something outside authentic-inauthentic
binaries;inshort,anideal,a critique;aboveallaquestion.
Thetranslationsinthisvolumewereproofedandeditedjointly,as
were ‘‘Jacques Derrida and Kabbalistic Sources’’ and ‘‘How to An-
swertheEthicalQuestion,’’essayspresentedtousinanEnglishver-
sion. This distinctly enhanced the quality of the work and promoted
terminological consistency. Michael B. Smith translated ‘‘The Story
ofaFriendship:TheArchiveandtheQuestionofPalestine,’’‘‘Histo-
ricity and Diffe´rance,’’ and ‘‘A Monster of Faithfulness.’’ Bettina
Bergotranslated‘‘TheLast,theRemnant...:(DerridaandRosenz-
weig)’’ and ‘‘The Judeo-Christian.’’ ‘‘This Stranjew Body’’ was
translated by Bettina Bergo and Gabriel Malenfant; ‘‘Abraham, the
Other’’wastranslatedbyGil Anidjar.
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TheessaysappearintheorderofpresentationintheFrenchorigi-
nal, though not all the French essays have been included in this En-
glish-language edition. Hent de Vries’s ‘‘The Shibboleth Effect’’ is a
contributionnewtothisvolume.
MichaelSmithwouldliketothankXiaojingZu,assistantlibrarian
ofBerryCollege,forherenthusiasticprofessionalassistanceandBe-
ttina Bergo and Helen Tartar for having invited him in on this chal-
lengingandimportant translationproject.
BettinaBergothanksPhilippeFarah,GabrielMalenfant,andJo-
celyneDoyon,UniversityofMontreal,fortheirlinguisticandbiblio-
graphicassistance.ShethanksMichaelSmithforhissuggestionsand
corrections. Both translators thank Helen Tartar sincerely for mak-
ingthisprojectpossible.
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