Jews and the Ends of Theory / / ed. by Shai Ginsburg, Martin Land, Jonathan Boyarin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Boyarin, Jonathan,; Boym, Svetlana,; Bush, Andrew,; Dolgopolski, Sergey,; Geller, Jay,; Ginsburg, Shai,; Hammerschlag, Sarah,; Hever, Hannan,; Jay, Martin,; Land, Martin,; Porter, James I.,; Shenhav, Yehouda,; Wolfson, Elliot R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Boyarin, Jonathan,; Ginsburg, Shai,; Land, Martin,
• TeilnehmendeR: Boym, Svetlana.; Bush, Andrew.; Dolgopolski, Sergey.; Geller, Jay.; Hammerschlag, Sarah.; Hever, Hannan.; Jay, Martin.; Land, Martin.; Porter, James I.; Shenhav, Yehouda.; Wolfson, Elliot R.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

Theory, as it's happened across the humanities, has often been coded as "Jewish." This collection of essays seeks to move past explanations for this understanding that rely on the self-evident (the historical centrality of Jews to the rise of Critical Theory with the Frankfurt School)...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction. Jews, Theory, and Ends
• chapter 1. Leo Lowenthal and the Jewish Renaissance
• chapter 2. The Palestinian Nakba and the Arab-Jewish Melancholy: An Essay on Sovereignty and Translation
• chapter 3. The Ends of Ladino
• chapter 4. The Last Jewish Intellectual: Derrida and His Literary Betrayal of Levinas
• chapter 5. Jews, in Theory
• chapter 6. The Jewish Animot: Of Jews as Animals
• chapter 7. The Off-Modern Turn: Modernist Humanism and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in Shklovsky and Mandelshtam
• chapter 8. Old Testament Realism in the Writings of Erich Auerbach
• chapter 9. Buber versus Scholem and the Figure of the Hasidic Jew: A Literary Debate between Two Political Theologies
• chapter 10. Against the "Attack on Linking": Rearticulating the "Jewish Intellectual" for Today
• 11. Recovering Futurity: Theorizing the End and the End of Theory
• Contributors
• Index