Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and index.
Roots, rootlessness, and fin de si�ecle France -- Stranger and self: Sartre's Jew -- Anti-Semite and Jew -- Dialectical history, unhappy consciousness, and the Messiah -- The ethics of uprootedness: Emmanuel Levinas's postwar project -- Literary unrest: Maurice Blanchot's rewriting of Levinas --The Last of the Jews: Jacques Derrida and the case of the figure -- The cut -- The exemplar.