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OverviewThis is the first book to examine the oeuvre of Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 1966 Nobel laureate in literature, through a reading that combines perspectives from economic theory, semiotics, psychoanalysis, narrative theory, and Jewish and religious studies. Sagiv outlines the vital role economy plays in the construction of religion, subjectivity, language, and thought in Agnon’s work, and, accordingly, explores his literary use of images of debt, money, and economy to examine how these themes illuminate other focal points in the canonical author’s work, excavating theeconomic infrastructure of discourses that are commonly considered to reside beyond the economic sphere. Sagiv’s analysis of Agnon’s work, renowned for its paradoxical articulation of the impact of modernity on traditional Jewish society, exposes an overarching distrust regarding the sustainability of any economic structure. The concrete and symbolic economies surveyed in this project are prone to cyclical crises. Under what Sagiv terms Agnon’s “law of permanent debt,” the stability and profitability of economies are always temporary. Agnon’s literary economy, transgressing traditional closures, together with hisprofound irony, make it impossible to determine if these economic crises are indeed the product of the break with tradition or, alternatively, if this theodicy is but a fantasy, marking permanent debtas the inherent economic infrastructure of human existence. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Yonatan SagivPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Imprint: Hebrew Union College Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.480kg ISBN: 9780822944577ISBN 10: 082294457 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 30 June 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of Contents"Acknowledgements A Monetary Prelude: Agnon's Time in Germany Introduction Modern Jewish Economy and the (Relative) Silence of Scholarship Modern Hebrew Literature and Jewish Economy Forever Indebted: Outline of Chapters Chapter 1: The Gift of Debt Debt as an Empty Space Investing Trust and Giving Credit The Infinitely Deferred Debt Questions of Giving The Impossible Gift The Letter, or, When Economies Break Down It's a Difficult Job, but Someone Has to Do It Between Credit and Crisis The Gift of Debt Chapter 2: Talking Through Money Meeting Another Guest The Cost of Flesh: When God Becomes a Debtor Contaminated Money I: Economic Crisis/Religious Restoration Contaminated Money II: Zionism The Capital of Zionism and the Calculation of Narrative Sacred Language and the Gold Standard When Language Betrays the Truth Money: The Agent of Irony The Value of Writing Chapter 3: Can't Buy Me Love Economy in ""Times of Change"" Accumulation, Consumption, and Lack The Melancholic Lack and the Endless Consumption of Love Hirshl's Madness as Bankruptcy The Bailout and What Remains of Love A Different Economy of Love: An Addendum of Love Dedicated to Mina Chapter 4: The Incomplete Text and the Indebted Author The Garment as Text My Text is a Torn Silk Gown Can One Repair A Torn Garment? To Weave, To Calculate-Indebted Writing Never Ends The Indebted Author as Tragic Figure Impossible Distributions of Time: The Condition of Writing an Incomplete Text The Law of Permanent Debt-Toward a Narrative Theory The Bottom Line: Turning Loss into Excess Conclusion Bibliography English Hebrew"ReviewsAuthor InformationYonatan Sagiv is a postdoctoral fellow of the IsraelInstitute, Centre for Jewish Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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