Adam Zachary Newton

Jewish Studies as Counterlife (eBook, PDF)

A Report to the Academy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the story of a Jewish Studies that hasn't fully happened-at least not yet. Newton asks what we mean when we say "e;Jewish Studies"e;-and 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 "e;origin story"e; 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 leverage a force multiplier for the field s 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 Newton s career-long articulation of the dialogic as the staging ground of ethical encounter.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823283972
• Artikelnr.: 72417184

Autorenporträt

Adam Zachary Newton is University Professor Emeritus, Yeshiva University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Interchapter I: JS Davka 30
1. Jewish Studies as Lever 35
Interchapter II: The Dialectics of Ownership 55
2. Jewish Studies and the Pitchfork 60
Interchapter III: "Past its own aim, out to another side" 83
3. Mochlos or Makhlokes: JS and the Humanities 87
Interchapter IV: Speaking of JS; and Its Vicissitudes 123
4. Bildungsheld or Pícaro, Canon and List: A Heterotopology for JS 127
Interchapter V: Bildung and Built-ins 161
5. Ventilating the Tradition: Rashbam and the Coen Brothers 165
Epilogue: Knotted thread, middle game: an envoi 191
Notes 201
Works Cited 239
Index 273