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OverviewTheory, as it's happened across the humanities, has often been coded as ""Jewish."" This collection of essays seeks to move past explanations for this understanding that rely on the self-evident (the historical centrality of Jews to the rise of Critical Theory with the Frankfurt School) or stereotypical (psychoanalysis as the ""Jewish Science"") in order to show how certain problematics of modern Jewishness enrich theory. In the range of violence and agency that attend the appellation ""Jew,"" depending on how, where, and by whom it's uttered, we can see that Jewishness is a rhetorical as much as a sociological fact, and that its rhetorical and sociological aspects, while linked, are not identical. Attention to this disjuncture helps to elucidate the questions of power, subjectivity, identity, figuration, language, and relation that modern theory has grappled with. These questions in turn implicate geopolitical issues such as the relation of a people to a state and the violence done in the name of simplistic identitarian ideologies. Clarifying a situation where ""the Jew"" is not readily or unproblematically legible, the editors propose what they call ""spectral reading,"" a way to understand Jewishness as a fluid and rhetorical presence. While not divorced from sociological facts, this spectral reading works in concert with contemporary theory to mediate pessimistic and utopian impulses, experiences, and realities. Contributors: Svetlana Boym, Andrew Bush, Sergey Dolgopolski, Jay Geller, Sarah Hammerschlag, Hannan Hever, Martin Land, Martin Jay, James I. Porter, Yehouda Shenhav, Elliot R. Wolfson Full Product DetailsAuthor: Shai Ginsburg, Associate Professor of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies , Martin Land , Jonathan Boyarin , Svetlana BoymPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press ISBN: 9780823281992ISBN 10: 082328199 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 04 December 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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 317ReviewsCollectively, the essays produce transgenerational dialogues centered in critical theory and offer significant insights into the idea of the Jew. * Choice * A glittering collection of essays that asks how the critical gist of the Frankfurt School tradition as well as the work of other Jewish intellectuals such as Scholem, Derrida, Buber, and Auerbach is inflected by `the Jew.' Beyond pointing to the biographies of many who have taken up critical theory, the volume shows how images and assumptions about the Jew and Jewishness, Ashkenazi vs. Sephardic Jewry, Israeli vs. diasporic Jewry, hover in the background of a range of texts and thinkers. A powerful collection that opens new vistas in our approach to social, cultural, and literary critical theories. -- Seyla Benhabib, Yale University A glittering collection of essays that asks how the critical gist of the Frankfurt School tradition as well as the work of other Jewish intellectuals such as Scholem, Derrida, Buber, and Auerbach is inflected by 'the Jew.' Beyond pointing to the biographies of many who have taken up critical theory, the volume shows how images and assumptions about the Jew and Jewishness, Ashkenazi vs. Sephardic Jewry, Israeli vs. diasporic Jewry, hover in the background of a range of texts and thinkers. A powerful collection that opens new vistas in our approach to social, cultural, and literary critical theories. --Seyla Benhabib, Yale University A powerful collection that opens new vistas in our approach to social, cultural, and literary critical theories.--Seyla Benhabib, Yale University A glittering collection of essays that asks how the critical gist of the Frankfurt School tradition as well as the work of other Jewish intellectuals such as Scholem, Derrida, Buber, and Auerbach is inflected by 'the Jew.' Beyond pointing to the biographies of many who have taken up critical theory, the volume shows how images and assumptions about the Jew and Jewishness, Ashkenazi vs. Sephardic Jewry, Israeli vs. diasporic Jewry, hover in the background of a range of texts and thinkers. A powerful collection that opens new vistas in our approach to social, cultural, and literary critical theories. -- Seyla Benhabib, Yale University Collectively, the essays produce transgenerational dialogues centered in critical theory and offer significant insights into the idea of the Jew. * Choice * Author InformationShai 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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