Shmuel Trigano is Professor of Sociology at the Université of Paris X Nanterre. He is the author of many books, including L'avenir des Juifs de France and Les Frontières d'Auschwitz: Les ravages du devoir de mémoire. This is the first of his works to be translated into English.

"…requires knowledge of both the Holocaust and political theory, but advanced students of both will find Trigano's approach enriching … Highly recommended." — CHOICE

• Introduction A Reversal in PerspectivePart 1 The Jew-of-the-Citizen 1. Naked Singularity in the Shoah2. The Unthinkable Singularity3. The All-Too-Thinkable Shoah4. The Unthought Singularity5. The "Universal" Narrative of Singularity6. Democracy’s Jewish Question: Sartre and ArendtPart 2 The Man-of-the-Citizen 7. The Enigma of the Democratic Man8. The "Crime of Being Born": The Obscenity of the Native Condition of Men9. The Hidden Religion of Modernity10. The Memory Controversy as a DecoyPart 3 The Jew-of-the-Man: The Singular and the DemocraticUniversal 11. The Enigma of Jewish Singularity12. The Enigma of the "People"13. Toward a New Age in Democracy?NotesIndex

Shmuel Trigano is Professor of Sociology at the Université of Paris X Nanterre. He is the author of many books, including L'avenir des Juifs de France and Les Frontières d'Auschwitz: Les ravages du devoir de mémoire. This is the first of his works to be translated into English.

"…requires knowledge of both the Holocaust and political theory, but advanced students of both will find Trigano's approach enriching … Highly recommended." — CHOICE

• Introduction A Reversal in PerspectivePart 1 The Jew-of-the-Citizen 1. Naked Singularity in the Shoah2. The Unthinkable Singularity3. The All-Too-Thinkable Shoah4. The Unthought Singularity5. The "Universal" Narrative of Singularity6. Democracy’s Jewish Question: Sartre and ArendtPart 2 The Man-of-the-Citizen 7. The Enigma of the Democratic Man8. The "Crime of Being Born": The Obscenity of the Native Condition of Men9. The Hidden Religion of Modernity10. The Memory Controversy as a DecoyPart 3 The Jew-of-the-Man: The Singular and the DemocraticUniversal 11. The Enigma of Jewish Singularity12. The Enigma of the "People"13. Toward a New Age in Democracy?NotesIndex

Shmuel Trigano is Professor of Sociology at the Université of Paris X Nanterre. He is the author of many books, including L'avenir des Juifs de France and Les Frontières d'Auschwitz: Les ravages du devoir de mémoire. This is the first of his works to be translated into English.

"…requires knowledge of both the Holocaust and political theory, but advanced students of both will find Trigano's approach enriching … Highly recommended." — CHOICE

• Introduction A Reversal in PerspectivePart 1 The Jew-of-the-Citizen 1. Naked Singularity in the Shoah2. The Unthinkable Singularity3. The All-Too-Thinkable Shoah4. The Unthought Singularity5. The "Universal" Narrative of Singularity6. Democracy’s Jewish Question: Sartre and ArendtPart 2 The Man-of-the-Citizen 7. The Enigma of the Democratic Man8. The "Crime of Being Born": The Obscenity of the Native Condition of Men9. The Hidden Religion of Modernity10. The Memory Controversy as a DecoyPart 3 The Jew-of-the-Man: The Singular and the DemocraticUniversal 11. The Enigma of Jewish Singularity12. The Enigma of the "People"13. Toward a New Age in Democracy?NotesIndex