Stéphane Mosès explores inDisplacements the poetry of Paul Celan and the work of major German-Jewish thinkers in the context of his distinction between normative and critical modernity. The first part contains a translation of his bookApproches de Paul Celan, the third part a translation of his lecture seriesFigures philosophiques de la modernité juive, and the central section contains, alongside a text on Freud, essays on Goethe and Büchner that extend his analysis beyond the Jewish sphere while engaging with the questions of tradition and its fragmentation that he raises there.

Edited, translated, and with an Introduction by Ashraf Noor.

Ashraf Noor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.