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.

• 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

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

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.

• 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

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

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.

• 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

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