Jay Geller

The Other Jewish Question

Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Will appeal to readers interested in psychoanalysis, in Jewish studies, in cultural studies, and in the whole question of "the body," which has been so intensely discussed in recent years. Maps the dissemination of and possible interrelationships among these corporeal signifiers in Germanophone cultures between the Enlightenment and the Shoah. Geller is known as a pioneer in Jewish studies, especially in its cultural studies mode.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 530
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 830g
• ISBN-13: 9780823233618
• ISBN-10: 0823233618
• Artikelnr.: 32739587

Autorenporträt

Jay Geller is Professor of Modern Jewish Culture at Vanderbilt Divinity School and the Vanderbilt University Jewish Studies Program, and has also taught at the University of Vienna, Bryn Mawr College, Princeton University, Rutgers University, Swarthmore College, and Wesleyan University. He is the author of On Freud¿s Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumcisions (2007), The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making Sense of Modernity (2011), and Bestiarium Judaicum: Unnatural Histories of the Jews (2018), all from Fordham University Press; and the co-editor of Reading Freud¿s Reading (New York University Press, 1994).