Marrano universalism. Benjamin, Derrida, and Buck-Morss on the condition of universal exile
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Jacques Derrida, language, Susan Buck-Morss, translation, universal history, universalism, Walter BenjaminAbstract
In this article, I would like to outline a new strategy for the universalization of history, which emerges from an analysis of the modern Jewish practice of philosophizing. I call it a Marranostrategy, building an analogy between the religious practices of the late-medieval Sephardic Jewry,which was forced to convert to Christianity but kept Judaism “undercover,” and the philosophical intervention of modern Jewish thinkers who spoke the seemingly universal idiom of Westernphilosophy but, at the same time, impregnated it “secretly” with the Jewish contents.
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