Book Description
This brilliant and engaging critical encounter between Jean-Francois Lyotard and Eberhard Gruber has as its focus a single punctuation mark -- the hyphen connecting "Jew" and "Christian" in the expression "Judeo-Christian." While focusing on the nature, meaning, and function of this hyphen, the authors are able to analyze many of the essential differences between Judaism and Christianity, as well as the most significant historical and political consequences of these differences from the Roman Empire to Europe's Holocaust. Beginning with a reading of the Letters of Paul, they contrast the Jewish and Christian postiions on a variety of issues ranging from emancipation, history, sacrifice, incarnation, faith, law, and sexual difference to the value that is accorded reading, writing, and interpretation within these two traditions.
About the author
The late Jean-Francois Lyotard was professor of philosophy at the Universite De Paris VIII (Universite De Vincennes) and a major literary critic and theoretician of postmodernism. Eberhard Gruber teaches in the Universite's Women's Studies Department.
