Invited to answer questions about his relationship to Judaism, Jacques Derrida spoke through Franz Kafka: As for myself, I could imagine another Abraham. He explores the movement between growing up Jewish, becoming Jewish, and Jewish being or existence. In his essay The Other Abraham, which appears here in English for the first time, he imagines other Abrahams in light of the proclaimed universalism of philosophy and its recent fragmentation into philosophemes. Thus we no longer confront Judaism but Judeity, multiple Judaisms and Jewish existences, manifold ways of being and writing as a Jew--in Derridas case, as a French-speaking Algerian deprived of, then restored to French nationality in the 1940s.Contributions contrast Derridas thought with philosophical predecessors such as Rosenzweig, Levinas, Celan, and Scholem, and trace confluences between deconstruction and Kabbalah. Derridas relationship to the universalist aspirations in contemporary theology is also discussed, and an evaluation is offered of his late autobiographical writings.
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