Jewish studies as counterlife : a report to the academy / / Adam Zachary Newton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827234903321
• Autore: Newton Adam Zachary
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2019
• ISBN: 0-8232-8397-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 pages)
• Disciplina: 296.07
• Soggetti: Judaism - Study and teaching (Higher); Jews - Study and teaching (Higher)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Interchapter I. Js Davka -- Chapter 1. Jewish studies as lever -- Interchapter II. The dialectics of owner ship -- Chapter 2. Jewish studies and the pitchfork -- Interchapter III. “Past its own aim, out to another side” -- Chapter 3. Mochlos or Makhlokes: js and the humanities -- Interchapter IV. Speaking of js; and its vicissitudes -- Chapter 4. Bildungsheld or Pícaro, canon and list: a heterotopology for js -- Interchapter V. Bildung and built-ins -- Chapter 5. Ventilating the tradition: Rashbam and the Coen brothers -- Epilogue. Knotted thread, middle game: an envoi -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book tells the story of a Jewish Studies that hasn’t fully happened—at least not yet. Newton asks what we mean when we say “Jewish Studies”—and when we imagine it not as mere amalgam but as a project. Jewish Studies offers a unique perspective from which to view the horizon of the academic humanities because, although it arrived belatedly, it has spanned a range of disciplinary locations and configurations, from an “origin story” in nineteenth-century historicism and philology, to the emancipatory politics of the Enlightenment, to the ethnicity-driven pluralism of the postwar decades, to more recent configurations within an interdisciplinary cultural studies. The conflicted allegiances with respect to traditions, disciplines, divisions, stakes, and stakeholders represent the structural and historical situation of the field, as it comes into contact with the humanities more ; broadly. At once a literary and philosophical thinker, Newton deploys a tableau of texts in concert with an ensemble of vivid, elastic tropes not only to theorize Jewish Studies but also to reimagine it as an agent of that potency Jacques Derrida calls “leverage”—a force multiplier for the field’s multiple possibilities. In refiguring a Jewish Studies to come, the book intervenes in a broader discourse about the challenge of professing disciplinary knowledges while promoting transit across their boundaries. Jewish Studies as Counterlife further amplifies Newton’s career-long articulation of the dialogic as the staging ground of ethical encounter.

Sustaining soil productivity in response to global climate change : science, policy, and ethics / / editors, Thomas J. Sauer, John M. Norman, Mannava V.K. Sivakumar

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910133220903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; ; Ames, Iowa, : Wiley-Blackwell/OECD, 2011
• ISBN: 9780470960233; 047096023X; 9780470960257; 0470960256; 9780470960226; 0470960221
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (606 p.)
• Classificazione: TEC003060
• Altri autori (Persone): SauerThomas J; NormanJohn M; Siva KumarM. V. K
• Disciplina: 333.76/16
• Soggetti: Soil management; Sustainable agriculture; Greenhouse gas mitigation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Science, Ethics, and the Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Historical Perspective on Soil Degradation; 1.3 The New Challenge of Global Climate Change; 1.4 White; 1.5 Other Views on the Ethics of Land Use: Leopold et al.; 1.6 Ethical Considerations of Strategies for Climate Change Mitigation: An Example; 1.7 Conclusions; Acknowledgements; 2 Intellectual Inertia; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Defining Intellectual Inertia; 2.3 Examples of Intellectual Inertia; 2.4 Intellectual Inertia is Unavoidable But Requires Vigilance2.5 Intellectual Inertia and Climate Change Science; 2.6 Optimizing Intellectual Inertia; 3 The Ethics of Soil; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Private Property and Personal Ethics; 3.3 Common Pool Resources; 3.4 Public Policy; 3.5 Instrumental Values of Soil; 3.6 Beyond Instrumental Value; 3.7 Conclusion and Next Steps; 4 Aldo Leopold and the Land Ethic; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Shaping of a Progressive; 4.3 Erosion as a Menace; 4.4 Standards of Conservation; 4.5 Conservation as a Moral Issue; 4.6 Wildlife and Soils; 4.7 The Conservation Ethic4.8 An Adventure in Cooperative Conservation; 4.9 Land Pathology; 4.10 Land Health; 4.11 The Land Ethic; 4.12 Epilogue; 5 Rural Response to Climate Change in Poor Countries; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Ethics; 5.3 Policies; 5.4 Scientific Support Systems; 5.5 Conclusions; 6 Soil and Human Health; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Essential Trace Elements; 6.3 Concerns for the Future; 7 Agroecological Approaches to Help "Climate Proof" Agriculture While Raising Productivity in the Twenty-First Century; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Agroecological Approaches; 7.3 The System of Rice Intensification7.4 Effects of SRI Practices on Agriculture Affected by Climate Change; 7.5 Applications to Crops Other than Rice; 7.6 Climate-Proofing Agriculture; 8 Ecological Integrity and Biological Integrity; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Ecological Integrity and Food Production Today; 8.3 The Legal Status of Genetically Modified Organisms; 8.4 Western Diets and Lifestyle Preferences: Vegan versus Carnivore; 8.5 Conclusion; 9 Soil Ecosystem Services; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 F. H. King-"Farmers of Forty Centuries"; 9.3 Soil: Valuable Natural Capital; 9.4 Valuing Ecosystem Services9.5 Valuing Carbon and Soil Ecosystem Services; 9.6 Valuing Terroir; 9.7 Land-Use Policy, Nutrient Management, and Natural Capital; 9.8 Conclusion; 10 Climate and Land Degradation; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Influence of Land Surface Changes on Climate; 10.3 Climate Change and Land Degradation; 10.4 Climate Variability and Impacts on Land Degradation; 10.5 Technologies, Policies, and Measures to Address the Linkages between Climate and Land Degradation; 10.6 Future Perspectives; 11 The Role of Soils and Biogeochemistry in the Climate and Earth System; 11.1 Introduction
• Sommario/riassunto: Sustaining Soil Productivity in Response to Global Climate Change: Science, Policy, and Ethics is a multi-disciplinary volume exploring the ethical, political and social issues surrounding the stewardship of our vital soil resources. Based on topics presented by an international group of experts at a conference convened through support of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, chapters include scientific studies on carbon sequestration, ecosystem services, maintaining soil fertility, and the effects of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as eth