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Jewish Studies as Counterlife

Adam Zachary Newton

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  • 256 sidor
  • 2019
This book tells the story of a Jewish Studies that hasnt fully happenedat least not yet. Newton asks what we mean when we say Jewish Studiesand when we imagine it not as mere amalgam but as a project. Jewish Studies offers a unique perspective from which to view the horizon of the academic humanities because, although it arrived belatedly, it has spanned a range of disciplinary locations and configurations, from an origin story in nineteenth-century historicism and philology, to the emancipatory politics of the Enlightenment, to the ethnicity-driven pluralism of the postwar decades, to more recent configurations within an interdisciplinary cultural studies. The conflicted allegiances with respect to traditions, disciplines, divisions, stakes, and stakeholders represent the structural and historical situation of the field, as it comes into contact with the humanities more broadly. At once a literary and philosophical thinker, Newton deploys a tableau of texts in concert with an ensemble of vivid, elastic tropes not only to theorize Jewish Studies but also to reimagine it as an agent of that potency Jacques Derrida calls leveragea force multiplier for the fields multiple possibilities. In refiguring a Jewish Studies to come, the book intervenes in a broader discourse about the challenge of professing disciplinary knowledges while promoting transit across their boundaries. Jewish Studies as Counterlife further amplifies Newtons career-long articulation of the dialogic as the staging ground of ethical encounter.
  • Författare: Adam Zachary Newton
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780823283941
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 256
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-06-04
  • Förlag: Fordham University Press