03190nam 2200709 a 450 991081922000332120200520144314.00-8232-4805-4(CKB)2670000000233604(EBL)3239667(SSID)ssj0000686554(PQKBManifestationID)11405507(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000686554(PQKBWorkID)10733200(PQKB)10706576(MiAaPQ)EBC3239667(OCoLC)810230225(MdBmJHUP)muse15030(Au-PeEL)EBL3239667(CaPaEBR)ebr10586725(OCoLC)923763841(EXLCZ)99267000000023360420080811d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJewishness and the human dimension /Jonathan Boyarin1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20081 online resource (153 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8232-2922-X Includes bibliographical references.A Jewish introduction to the human sciences -- Responsive thinking : cultural studies and Jewish historiography -- Seasons and lifetimes -- Toward an anthropology of the twentieth century -- Tropes of home -- A moment of danger, a taste of death -- Extinction and difference.Jewishness and the Human Dimension is a leading scholar's progress report on an effort to bring Jewishness broadly construed into dialogue with a wide range of thought in contemporary criticism, while linking those themes in turn to the question of planetary crisis. Jonathan Boyarin opens with chapters focus on research and teaching in Jewish cultural studies as academic practice and a powerful call from transforming Jewish historiography. In a dialogue with the Jerusalem-based physicist Martin Land, Boyarin explores physical and cultural ideas of futurity and redemption. The book ends with a stark challenge to those who work in the contemporary humanities and social sciences: in order to be able to contribute to the possibility of sustained human life on Earth, we need to interrogate rigorously the status of human differences now.Judaism and scienceJudaism and the social sciencesJewsHistoriographyHuman ecologyReligious aspectsJudaismJudaism and cultureJewsIdentityGlobalizationDifference (Philosophy)Judaism and science.Judaism and the social sciences.JewsHistoriography.Human ecologyReligious aspectsJudaism.Judaism and culture.JewsIdentity.Globalization.Difference (Philosophy)296.3/7Boyarin Jonathan1609025MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819220003321Jewishness and the human dimension3968081UNINA