Jews and the ends of theory

"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 B...

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Contributors: Ginsburg, Shai P. 1967- (Editor) ; Land, Martin 1953- (Editor) ; Boyarin, Jonathan 1956- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Fordham University Press 2019
In:Year: 2019
Volumes / Articles:Show volumes/articles.
Edition:First edition
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Jews / Critical theory / Literature / History 1900-2010
Further subjects:B Jewish literature History and criticism Theory, etc
B Critical Theory
B Jews Intellectual life 21st century
B Jewish Philosophy
B Jews Intellectual life 20th century
B Criticism (Philosophy) History
Parallel Edition:Electronic
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Summary:"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"--
Introduction: Jews, theory, and ends / Shai Ginsburg, Martin Land, and Jonathan Boyarin -- Leo Lowenthal and the Jewish renaissance / Martin Jay -- The Palestinian Nakba and the Arab-Jewish melancholy: an essay on sovereignty and translation / Yehouda Shenhav -- The ends of Ladino / Andrew Bush -- The last Jewish intellectual: Derrida and his literary betrayal of Levinas / Sarah Hammerschlag -- Jews, in theory / Sergey Dolgopolski -- The Jewish animot: of Jews as animals / Jay Geller -- The off-modern turn: modernist humanism and vernacular cosmopolitanism in Shklovsky and Mandelshtam / Svetlana Boym -- Old Testament realism in the writings of Erich Auerbach / James I. Porter -- Buber versus Scholem and the figure of the Hasidic Jew: a literary debate between two political theologies / Hannan Hever -- Against the "attack on linking": rearticulating the Jewish intellectual for today / Martin Land -- Recovering futurity: theorizing the end and the end of theory / Elliot R. Wolfson
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0823282007