(God) after Auschwitz : tradition and change in post-Holocaust Jewish thought / / Zachary Braiterman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780052503321
• Autore: Braiterman Zachary <1963->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1998
• ISBN: 1-4008-2276-9; 1-282-93521-6; 9786612935213; 1-4008-1112-0
• Edizione: [Core Textbook]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 pages)
• Disciplina: 296.3/1174
• Soggetti: Holocaust (Jewish theology); Theodicy; Judaism - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-200) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. Modernity Surpassed: Jewish Religious Thought after Auschwitz -- PART I -- ONE. Theodicy and Its Others: Forms of Religious Response to the Problem of Evil -- TWO. Anti/Theodicy: In Bible and Midrash -- THREE. Theodicies: In Modern Jewish Thought -- PART II -- FOUR. "Hitler's Accomplice"?! Revisioning Richard Rubenstein -- FIVE. Do I Belong to the Race of Words? Anti/Theodic Faith and Textual Revision in the Thought of Eliezer Berkovits -- SIX. Why Is the World Today Not Water? Revelation, Fragmentation, and Solidarity in the Thought of Emil Fackenheim -- CONCLUSION. Discourse, Sign, Diptych: Remarks on Jewish Thought after Auschwitz -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of Auschwitz by rejecting traditional theodicy, abandoning any attempt to justify and vindicate the relationship between God and catastrophic suffering. The author terms this rejection "Antitheodicy," the refusal to accept that ; relationship. It finds voice in the writings of three particular theologians: Richard Rubenstein, Eliezer Berkovits, and Emil Fackenheim. This book is the first to bring postmodern philosophical and literary approaches into conversation with post-Holocaust Jewish thought. Drawing on the work of Mieke Bal, Harold Bloom, Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Michel Foucault, and others, Braiterman assesses how Jewish intellectuals reinterpret Bible and Midrash to re-create religious thought for the age after Auschwitz. In this process, he provides a model for reconstructing Jewish life and philosophy in the wake of the Holocaust. His work contributes to the postmodern turn in contemporary Jewish studies and today's creative theology.

The evolving role of China in the global economy / / [edited by] Yin-Wong Cheung, Jakob de Haan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786466303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2013
• ISBN: 0-262-30494-5; 1-283-95319-6; 0-262-30586-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (473 p.)
• Collana: CESifo seminar series
• Disciplina: 337.51
• Soggetti: Finance - China; China Economic policy; China Foreign economic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from title screen.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CESifo Seminar Series; Contents; Contributors; Series Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction; I China's Exchange Rate Policy; 2 United States, China, and the Rebalancing Debate: Misalignment, Elasticities, and the Saving-Investment Balance; 3 The Role of the Chinese Dollar Peg for Macroeconomic Stability in China and the World Economy; 4 Permanent and Transitory Macroeconomic Relationships between China and the ; Developed World; 5 China's External Position: Simulations with a Global Macroeconomic Model; II Chinese Savings and Investment; 6 How Much Do We Know about China's High Saving Rate?; 7 Why Is China's Saving Rate So High? A Comparative Study of Cross-Country Panel Data8 If You Try, You'll Get By: Chinese Private Firms' 'Efficiency Gains from Overcoming Financial Constraints; III China's Monetary Policy and Capital Controls; 9 Chinese Monetary Policy and the Dollar Peg; 10 Offshore Markets for the Domestic Currency: Monetary and Financial Stability Issues; 11 Crisis, Capital Controls, and Covered Interest Parity: Evidence from China in Transformation; IV China's FDI and Quest for Resources; 12 China's Outward Direct Investment and Its Oil Quest; 13 China's Investments in AfricaIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: Experts analyze four factors in China's economic growth: exchange rate policy, savings and investments, monetary policy, and foreign direct investments. China is now the world's second largest economy and may soon overtake the United States as the world's largest. Despite its adoption of some free-market principles, China considers itself a "socialist-market economy," suggesting that the government still plays a major role in the country's economic development. This book offers a systematic analysis of four factors in China's rapid economic growth: exchange rate policy, savings and investment, monetary policy and capital controls, and foreign direct investment (FDI). Contributors offer fresh perspectives on the undervaluation of the renminbi, the dollar peg, and China's macroeconomic relationships with the rest of the world. They review factors shaping China's saving dynamics and analyze the growth of the private sector despite limited access to external finance. They examine the monetary policy independence of the People's Bank of China, offshore markets for China's currency, and the effectiveness of China's capital controls. Finally, they consider Chinese FDI in terms of China's growing demand for energy and raw materials, exploring the factors that drive China's FDI in the conventional oil-producing countries and in Africa.