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Article: The Jewish Derrida. .(Book Review)
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The Jewish Derrida, by Gideon Ofrat, translated by Peretz Kidron. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001. 201 pp. $17.95.
A more accurate title for this book would have been The Non-Jewish Derrida. After reading it, whatever the author's intentions, one is fully convinced that Derrida knows next to nothing, and wrote nothing serious or important, about the Judaism he never learned or practiced. For a deconstruction hard-liner like Ofrat, who appears to be in the same position as Derrida, however, it is precisely this lack or absence that somehow --God only knows--constitutes Derrida's Jewishness. The Jewish Derrida is a book by an obvious outsider to ...
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