03706nam 22004575 450 991048009070332120210713012526.00-8232-8397-610.1515/9780823283972(CKB)4100000008154832(MiAaPQ)EBC5771678(DE-B1597)555153(DE-B1597)9780823283972(OCoLC)1100089042(EXLCZ)99410000000815483220200723h20192019 fg 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierJewish Studies as Counterlife A Report to the Academy /Adam Zachary NewtonNew York, NY :Fordham University Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (297 pages)Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexThis 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.JudaismStudy and teaching (Higher)JewsStudy and teaching (Higher)Electronic books.JudaismStudy and teaching (Higher)JewsStudy and teaching (Higher)296.07Newton Adam Zacharyauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut847006DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910480090703321Jewish Studies as Counterlife2489226UNINA