LEADER 03931nam 2200613 450 001 9910154310103321 005 20230807212138.0 010 $a0-8232-6647-8 010 $a0-8232-6355-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000290645 035 $a(EBL)3239951 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001370864 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12511884 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001370864 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11300129 035 $a(PQKB)10526001 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239951 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001111280 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000290645 100 $a20140724d2015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTo make the hands impure $eart, ethical adventure, the difficult, and the holy /$fAdam Zachary Newton 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (508 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-6351-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Prologue: Meaningful Adjacencies -- Introduction: Laws of Tact and Genre -- Part one / Hands -- 1. Pledge, Turn, Prestige: Worldliness and Sanctity in Edward Said and Emmanuel Levinas -- 2. Sollicitation and Rubbing the Text: Reading Said and Levinas Reading -- 3. Henry Darger, Blaise Pascal, and the Book in Hand -- Part two / Genres -- 4. Ethics of Reading I: Levinas and the Talmud -- 5. Ethics of Reading II: Bakhtin and the Novel -- 6. Ethics of Reading III: Cavell and Theater/Cinema -- Part three / Languages -- 7. Abyss, Volcano, and the Frozen Swirl of Words: The Difficult and the Holy in Agnon, Bialik, and Scholem -- Epilogue: The Book in Hand, Again -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Proper Names -- Index of Topics. 330 $a"How can cradling, handling, or rubbing a text be said, ethically, to have made something happen? What, as readers or interpreters, may come off in our hands in as we maculate or mark the books we read? For Adam Zachary Newton, reading is anembodied practice wherein "ethics" becomes a matter of tact in the doubled sense of touch and regard. With the image of the book lying in the hands of its readers as insistent refrain, To Make the Hands Impure cuts a provocative cross-disciplinary swath through classical Jewish texts, modern Jewish philosophy, film and performance, literature, translation, and the material text. Newton explores the ethics of reading through a range of texts, from the Talmud and Midrash to Conrad's Nostromo and Pascal's Le Me?morial, from works by Henry Darger and Martin Scorsese to the National September 11 Memorial and a synagogue in Havana, Cuba. In separate chapters, he conducts masterly treatments of Emmanuel Levinas, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Stanley Cavell by emphasizing their performances as readers a trebled orientation to Talmud, novel, and theater/film. To Make the Hands Impure stages the encounter of literary experience and scriptural traditions he difficult and the holy through an ambitious, singular, and innovative approach marked in equal measure by erudition and imaginative daring"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aPhilosophy, Modern$y20th century 606 $aPhilosophy, Modern$y21st century 606 $aArt and morals 606 $aEthics in literature 606 $aReader-response criticism 615 0$aPhilosophy, Modern 615 0$aPhilosophy, Modern 615 0$aArt and morals. 615 0$aEthics in literature. 615 0$aReader-response criticism. 676 $a190 700 $aNewton$b Adam Zachary$0847006 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154310103321 996 $aTo make the hands impure$93409212 997 $aUNINA