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Informationen zum Autor Ken Koltun-Fromm is professor of religion at Haverford College where he teaches courses in modern Jewish thought and material religion. Klappentext Thinking Jewish Culture in America argues that Jewish thought extends our awareness and deepens the complexity of American Jewish culture. This volume stretches the disciplinary boundaries of Jewish thought so that it can productively engage expanding arenas of culture by drawing Jewish thought into the orbit of cultural studies. Zusammenfassung Thinking Jewish Culture in America argues that Jewish thought extends our awareness and deepens the complexity of American Jewish culture. This volume stretches the disciplinary boundaries of Jewish thought so that it can productively engage expanding arenas of culture by drawing Jewish thought into the orbit of cultural studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Introduction by Ken Koltun-Fromm Part I: About Culture Chapter One: Jewish Peoplehood and the Nationalist Paradigm in American Jewish Culture Noam Pianko Chapter Two: Otherness and Liberal Democratic Solidarity: Buber, Kaplan, Levinas And Rorty's Social Hope Akiba Lerner Chapter Three: Philip Rieff's "Jew of Culture" and the Ends of Higher Education in America Gregory Kaplan Chapter Four: Reading a Book like an Object: The Case of The Jewish Catalog Ari Y Kelman Part II: Art, Literature, Culture Chapter Five: Beyond the Chasm: Religion and Literature after the Holocaust Claire E. Sufrin Chapter Six: Celan's Holocaust: The Scene of Instruction for America Leonard Kaplan Chapter Seven: Aura and the "Spiritual in Art" in the Age of Digital Reproduction Zachary Braiterman Part III: Theology and Culture Chapter Eight: A Personal Partnership with God: Abraham Joshua Heschel's Pragmatic Theodicy Einat Ramon Chapter Nine: "An Ethic of Suffering": J.B. Soloveitchik as Pragmatist Jessica Rosenberg Chapter Ten: Intersubjectivity Meets Maternity: Buber, Levinas, and the Eclipsed Relation Mara H. Benjamin Chapter Eleven: Authenticity, Vision, Culture: Michael Wyschogrod's The Body of Faith Ken Koltun-Fromm Postscript: Thinking Jewish Culture in America Arnold Eisen About the Contributors ...
