{"product_id":"german-jewish-thought-and-its-afterlife-a-tenuous-legacy-paperback-softback-9780253024855","title":"German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife; A Tenuous Legacy (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253024855","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGerman-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Tenuous Legacy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eVivian Liska (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253024855\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 December 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e218 pages, 1 b\u0026amp;w\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.327 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Liska's book conducts an insightful investigation into the history of ideas, and she is able to compare and contrast the wide range of thinkers under examination in clear, sophisticated, and nuanced ways. \"—\u003ci\u003eReligious Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"In a highly sophisticated—but clearly written and accessible manner—Vivian Liska traces the impact of the Jewish tradition on modernist German-Jewish thought and provocatively points to the challenges facing this aspect of its legacy for our own time.\"—Steven E. Aschheim, author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Convincing, original, and well thought. A crowning achievement for one of the most astute and visible critics of Kafka and of German Modernism today.\"—Jean-Michel Rabaté, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Pathos of Distance: Affect of the Moderns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Although the authors who form the main focus of the book have been thoroughly studied and discussed on many occasions over the past fifty years or so, Liska brings into her analysis a fresh perspective that highlights the elusive Jewish quality at work in the texts under discussion.\"—\u003ci\u003ePartial Answers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGerman-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife\u003c\/i\u003e, Vivian Liska innovatively focuses on the changing form, fate and function of messianism, law, exile, election, remembrance, and the transmission of tradition itself in three different temporal and intellectual frameworks: German-Jewish modernism, postmodernism, and the current period. Highlighting these elements of the Jewish tradition in the works of Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan, Liska reflects on dialogues and conversations between them and on the reception of their work. She shows how this Jewish dimension of their writings is transformed, but remains significant in the theories of Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida and how it is appropriated, dismissed or denied by some of the most acclaimed thinkers at the turn of the twenty-first century such as Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, and Alain Badiou.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e I Tradition and Transmission\u003cbr\u003e 1. Early Jewish Modernity and Arendt's Rahel\u003cbr\u003e 2. Tradition and the Hidden: Arendt Reading Scholem\u003cbr\u003e 3. Transmitting the Gap in Time: Arendt and Agamben\u003cbr\u003e II Law and Narration\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"As if Not\": Agamben as Reader of Kafka\u003cbr\u003e 5. Kafka, Narrative, and the Law\u003cbr\u003e 6. Kafka's Other Job: From Susman to Žižek\u003cbr\u003e III Messianic Language \u003cbr\u003e 7. Pure Languages: Benjamin and Blanchot on Translation \u003cbr\u003e 8. Ideas of Prose: Benjamin and Agamben\u003cbr\u003e 9. Reading Scholem and Benjamin on the Demonic\u003cbr\u003e IV Exile, Remembrance, Exemplarity\u003cbr\u003e 10. Paradoxes of Exemplarity: From Celan to Derrida\u003cbr\u003e 11. Two Kinds of Strangers: Celan and Bachmann\u003cbr\u003e 12. Exile as Experience and Metaphor: From Celan to Badiou\u003cbr\u003e 13. Geoffrey Hartman on Midrash and Testimony\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: New Angels\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52695221403928,"sku":"9780253024855","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/german-jewish-thought-and-its-afterlife-a-tenuous-legacy-paperback-softback-9780253024855","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}