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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 ContentsIntroduction by Ken Koltun-FrommPart I: About CultureChapter One: Jewish Peoplehood and the Nationalist Paradigm in American Jewish CultureNoam PiankoChapter Two: Otherness and Liberal Democratic Solidarity: Buber, Kaplan, Levinas And Rorty's Social HopeAkiba LernerChapter Three: Philip Rieff's "Jew of Culture" and the Ends of Higher Education in America Gregory KaplanChapter Four: Reading a Book like an Object: The Case of The Jewish CatalogAri Y KelmanPart II: Art, Literature, CultureChapter Five: Beyond the Chasm: Religion and Literature after the HolocaustClaire E. SufrinChapter Six: Celan's Holocaust: The Scene of Instruction for AmericaLeonard KaplanChapter Seven: Aura and the "Spiritual in Art" in the Age of Digital ReproductionZachary BraitermanPart III: Theology and CultureChapter Eight: A Personal Partnership with God: Abraham Joshua Heschel's Pragmatic TheodicyEinat RamonChapter Nine: "An Ethic of Suffering": J.B. Soloveitchik as PragmatistJessica RosenbergChapter Ten: Intersubjectivity Meets Maternity: Buber, Levinas, and the Eclipsed RelationMara H. BenjaminChapter Eleven: Authenticity, Vision, Culture: Michael Wyschogrod's The Body of FaithKen Koltun-FrommPostscript: Thinking Jewish Culture in AmericaArnold EisenAbout the Contributors...
