Introduction
Roots, rootlessness, and fin de siècle France
Stranger and self: Sartre's Jew
Anti-Semite and Jew
Dialectical history, unhappy consciousness, and the Messiah
The ethics of uprootedness: Emmanuel Levinas's postwar project
Literary unrest: Maurice Blanchot's rewriting of Levinas
"The Last of the Jews": Jacques Derrida and the case of the figure
The cut
The exemplar
Conclusion.