Newton Jewish Studies as Counterlife

A Report to the Academy
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8397-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

This book seeks to harness the possibilities offered by the evolving collection of forces by which Jewish Studies is constituted and practiced in order to open, refashion, and exemplify possibilities for a humanities to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newton, Adam Zachary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 1Interchapter I: JS Davka 301. Jewish Studies as Lever 35Interchapter II: The Dialectics of Ownership 552. Jewish Studies and the Pitchfork 60Interchapter III: “Past its own aim, out to another side” 833. Mochlos or Makhlokes: JS and the Humanities 87Interchapter IV: Speaking of JS; and Its Vicissitudes 1234. Bildungsheld or Pícaro, Canon and List: A Heterotopology for JS 127Interchapter V: Bildung and Built-ins 1615. Ventilating the Tradition: Rashbam and the Coen Brothers 165Epilogue: Knotted thread, middle game: an envoi 191Notes 201Works Cited 239Index 273

Über Autor(innen)

Newton Adam Zachary:
Adam Zachary Newton is University Professor Emeritus, Yeshiva University.Adam Zachary Newton is University Professor Emeritus, Yeshiva University.