Jewishness and the human dimension / / Jonathan Boyarin

• Autore: Boyarin Jonathan
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (153 p.)
• Disciplina: 296.3/7
• Soggetto topico: Judaism and science; Judaism and the social sciences; Jews - Historiography; Human ecology - Religious aspects - Judaism; Judaism and culture; Jews - Identity; Globalization; Difference (Philosophy)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Jewishness and the human dimension
• ISBN: 0-8232-4805-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819220003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II