The Transfer of Jewish Thought from Weimar Germany to post-war France

My research analyses the transfer of modern Jewish Thought from Weimar Germany to post-war France. It does so by focussing on gendered expressions of conceiving an ideal community and political agency in the works of Margarete Susman (1872 –1966), Eliane Amado Levy-Valensi (1919 –2006) and Sarah Kofman (1934 –1994). This research aims at giving their voice a central position in a research field which mainly focusses on the influential male philosophers of their surroundings (Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas and Derrida) and carving out the specific fields of tension that emerged in light of both the reconception of a politicised Jewish philosophy at the wake of the trauma of the Shoah and the challenges of the women’s rights movement. In a close reading of their texts, I will focus on the philosophical conceptions of gender, love, the couple and the concrete political role of women during the crises the thinkers develop their philosophy in.