Exemplarity and ChosennessExemplarity and Chosenness is a combined study of the philosophies of Jacques Derrida (1930 2004) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886 1929) that explores the question: How may we account for the possibility of philosophy, of universalism in thinking, without denying that all thinking is also idiomatic and particular? The book traces Derrida's interest in this topic, particularly emphasizing his work on "philosophical nationality" and his insight that