Jewish Studies As Counterlife - A Report to the Academy

This book seeks to harness the possibilities offered by the evolving collection of forces by which Jewish Studies is constituted and practiced in order to open, refashion, and exemplify possibilities for a humanities to come.

List of contents

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

About the author

Adam Zachary Newton

Product details

• Authors: Adam Zachary Newton
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780823283958
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-8395-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Judentum, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Sociology, RELIGION / Judaism / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies