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1 online resource (337 pages) |
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Cover; JEWS AND THE ENDS OF THEORY; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Introduction: Jews, Theory, and Ends; 1. Leo Lowenthal and the Jewish Renaissance; 2. The Palestinian Nakba and the Arab-Jewish Melancholy: An Essay on Sovereignty and Translation; 3. The Ends of Ladino; 4. The Last Jewish Intellectual: Derrida and His Literary Betrayal of Levinas; 5. Jews, in Theory; 6. The Jewish Animot: Of Jews as Animals; 7. The Off-Modern Turn: Modernist Humanism and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in Shklovsky and Mandelshtam; 8. Old Testament Realism in the Writings of Erich Auerbach |
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9. Buber versus Scholem and the Figure of the Hasidic Jew: A Literary Debate between Two Political Theologies10. Against the "Attack on Linking": Rearticulating the "Jewish Intellectual" for Today; 11. Recovering Futurity: Theorizing the End and the End of Theory; List of Contributors; Index |
| 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 |
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Print version record |
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Critical theory.
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Criticism (Philosophy) -- History
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Jewish literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Jewish philosophy.
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Jews -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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Jews -- Intellectual life -- 21st century
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critical theories (dialectical critiques)
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critical theory (sociological concept)
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RELIGION / Judaism / General.
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Critical theory
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Criticism (Philosophy)
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Jewish philosophy
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Jews -- Intellectual life
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Dolgopolski, Sergey
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Geller, Jay
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Hammerschlag, Sarah
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Jay, Martin
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Wolfson, Elliot R
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Bush, Andrew
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Ginsburg, Shai
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Land, Martin, 1953-
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Boyarin, Jonathan
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| ISBN |
9780823282029 |
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0823282023 |
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9780823282012 |
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0823282015 |
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