German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife - A Tenuous Legacy

Informationen zum Autor Vivian Liska Klappentext She shows how this Jewish dimension of their writings is transformed, but remains significant in the theories of Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida and how it is appropriated, dismissed or denied by some of the most acclaimed thinkers at the turn of the twenty-first century such as Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Zizek, and Alain Badiou. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction I Tradition and Transmission 1. Early Jewish Modernity and Arendt's Rahel 2. Tradition and the Hidden: Arendt Reading Scholem 3. Transmitting the Gap in Time: Arendt and Agamben II Law and Narration 4. "As if Not": Agamben as Reader of Kafka 5. Kafka, Narrative, and the Law 6. Kafka's Other Job: From Susman to Žižek III Messianic Language 7. Pure Languages: Benjamin and Blanchot on Translation 8. Ideas of Prose: Benjamin and Agamben 9. Reading Scholem and Benjamin on the Demonic IV Exile, Remembrance, Exemplarity 10. Paradoxes of Exemplarity: From Celan to Derrida 11. Two Kinds of Strangers: Celan and Bachmann 12. Exile as Experience and Metaphor: From Celan to Badiou 13. Geoffrey Hartman on Midrash and Testimony Epilogue: New Angels Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Vivian Liska
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780253024688
• ISBN: 978-0-253-02468-8
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Jewish Literature and Culture; Jewish Literature and Culture; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies