Jews and the Ends of Theory

Herausgeber: Ginsburg, Shai; Boyarin, Jonathan; Land, Martin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume assesses the role of Jews, as both agents and figures, in the development of critical and literary theory in the twentieth century and beyond. Its topics range from Biblical criticism to the relationship between Derrida and Levinas, from Mizrachi Jews in Israel to the Zionisms of Buber and Scholem.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780823282005
• ISBN-10: 0823282007
• Artikelnr.: 51500965

Autorenporträt

Shai Ginsburg (Edited By) Shai Ginsburg is Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Jewish Studies at Duke University. Martin Land (Edited By) Martin Land is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Hadassah College and the Open University of Israel. Jonathan Boyarin (Edited By) Jonathan Boyarin is Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in the Departments of Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Jews, Theory, and Ends Shai Ginsburg, Martin Land, and Jonathan Boyarin, 1 1. Leo Lowenthal and the Jewish Renaissance Martin Jay, 27 2. The Palestinian Nakba and the Arab-Jewish Melancholy: An Essay on Sovereignty and Translation Yehouda Shenhav, 48 3. The Ends of Ladino Andrew Bush, 65 4. The Last Jewish Intellectual: Derrida and His Literary Betrayal of Levinas Sarah Hammerschlag, 88 5. Jews, in Theory Sergey Dolgopolski, 108 6. The Jewish Animot: Of Jews as Animals Jay Geller, 142 7. The Off-Modern Turn: Modernist Humanism and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in Shklovsky and Mandelshtam Svetlana Boym, 164 8. Old Testament Realism in the Writings of Erich Auerbach James I. Porter, 187 9. Buber versus Scholem and the Figure of the Hasidic Jew: A Literary Debate between Two Political Theologies Hannan Hever, 225 10. Against the
Attack on Linking
: Rearticulating the
Jewish Intellectual
for Today Martin Land, 263 11. Recovering Futurity: Theorizing the End and the End of Theory Elliot R. Wolfson, 293 List of Contributors 313 Index 317