Sarah Hammerschlag
Biographic Data
| ID | 322963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Hammerschlag |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Hammerschlag |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMERSCHLAG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Problem of the Fetish
Believing in the USA
This essay considers the relationship between the prophet and the charlatan, particularly as they figure in the contemporary American political landscape. It argues that at moments of democratic political crisis these figures arise and reveal the vacancy of sovereignty within the democratic model. The essay treats Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man along with Jacques Derrida’s writings on democracy and the apocalyptic tone as resources in this …
The Religion of Existence
Winner of the American Academy of Religion’s 2017 Book Award for Constructive-Reflective Studies With a distinctive voice, remarkable clarity of prose, and keen insight, Noreen Khawaja’s The Religion of Existence: Asceticism in Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Sartre argues for a Christian infrastructure undergirding existentialism. “If God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence,” Sartre famously declare…
Broken Tablets
Over a span of thirty years, twentieth-century French philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida held a conversation across texts. Sharing a Jewish heritage and a background in phenomenology, both came to situate their work at the margins of philosophy, articulating this placement through religion and literature. Chronicling the interactions between these thinkers, Sarah Hammerschlag argues that the stakes in their respective positions wer…
Broken Tablets
Revolution and the Jews
Taking the public demonstrations in France after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo as its starting point, the essay considers the active role Jews played in shaping the relationship between religion and politics in modern Europe to argue that this history can allow us to think more expansively about the position of Islam in current discussions of theo-politics in France and Europe more broadly
Outside the Canon
In her role as a philosopher and a theorist of gender, Judith Butler is perhaps the most prominent American intellectual writing today. It is thus certainly something of a boon to the discipline of Jewish Studies to see her begin to speak and think as a Jewish thinker. Jewish studies is a field that has not had much visibility in the academy outside of the Israel–Palestine conflict and it has not always been understood to offer the emancipatory p…
The Figural Jew
Literary Unrest
Introduction to 'Letter to Maurice Blanchot on the Creation of the State of Israel
Reading May '68 through a Levinasian Lens
Reading May '68 through a Levinasian Lens: Alain Finkielkraut, Maurice Blanchot, and the Politics of Identity Sarah Hammerschlag (bio) Keywords Sarah Hammerschlag, May 1968, Alan Finkielkraut, Maurice Blanchot, Identity, France, Dreyfus Affair, French Jews, Student Protests, Daniel Cohn-Bendit Amid the french student protests of May 1968, there was a moment when the figure of the Jew made an unforgettable appearance on the public scene. In the th…
Troping the Jew
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Troping the Jew
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Reading May '68 through a Levinasian Lens
Reading May '68 through a Levinasian Lens: Alain Finkielkraut, Maurice Blanchot, and the Politics of Identity Sarah Hammerschlag (bio) Keywords Sarah Hammerschlag, May 1968, Alan Finkielkraut, Maurice Blanchot, Identity, France, Dreyfus Affair, French Jews, Student Protests, Daniel Cohn-Bendit Amid the french student protests of May 1968, there was a moment when the figure of the Jew made an unforgettable appearance on the public scene. In the th…
The Figural Jew
Literary Unrest
Introduction to 'Letter to Maurice Blanchot on the Creation of the State of Israel
Outside the Canon
In her role as a philosopher and a theorist of gender, Judith Butler is perhaps the most prominent American intellectual writing today. It is thus certainly something of a boon to the discipline of Jewish Studies to see her begin to speak and think as a Jewish thinker. Jewish studies is a field that has not had much visibility in the academy outside of the Israel–Palestine conflict and it has not always been understood to offer the emancipatory p…
Broken Tablets
Revolution and the Jews
Taking the public demonstrations in France after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo as its starting point, the essay considers the active role Jews played in shaping the relationship between religion and politics in modern Europe to argue that this history can allow us to think more expansively about the position of Islam in current discussions of theo-politics in France and Europe more broadly
Broken Tablets
Over a span of thirty years, twentieth-century French philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida held a conversation across texts. Sharing a Jewish heritage and a background in phenomenology, both came to situate their work at the margins of philosophy, articulating this placement through religion and literature. Chronicling the interactions between these thinkers, Sarah Hammerschlag argues that the stakes in their respective positions wer…
Believing in the USA
This essay considers the relationship between the prophet and the charlatan, particularly as they figure in the contemporary American political landscape. It argues that at moments of democratic political crisis these figures arise and reveal the vacancy of sovereignty within the democratic model. The essay treats Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man along with Jacques Derrida’s writings on democracy and the apocalyptic tone as resources in this …
The Religion of Existence
Winner of the American Academy of Religion’s 2017 Book Award for Constructive-Reflective Studies With a distinctive voice, remarkable clarity of prose, and keen insight, Noreen Khawaja’s The Religion of Existence: Asceticism in Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Sartre argues for a Christian infrastructure undergirding existentialism. “If God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence,” Sartre famously declare…
The Problem of the Fetish
Philosophy (7 works) · Theology (6 works) · Religious studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) (3 works)