{"product_id":"jewish-studies-as-counterlife-a-report-to-the-academy-paperback-softback-9780823283941","title":"Jewish Studies As Counterlife; A Report to the Academy (Paperback \/ softback) 9780823283941","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eJewish Studies As Counterlife\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Report to the Academy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAdam Zachary Newton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823283941\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 4 June 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 1\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.46 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eto come\u003c\/i\u003e, the book intervenes in a broader discourse about the challenge of professing disciplinary knowledges while promoting transit across their boundaries. \u003ci\u003eJewish Studies as Counterlife\u003c\/i\u003e further amplifies Newton's career-long articulation of the dialogic as the staging ground of ethical encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003c\/b\u003e   ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/b\u003e  1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eInterchapter I\u003c\/b\u003e: JS Davka   30\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e Jewish Studies as Lever   35\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eInterchapter II\u003c\/b\u003e: The Dialectics of Ownership   55\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Jewish Studies and the Pitchfork   60\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eInterchapter III\u003c\/b\u003e: \"Past its own aim, out to another side\"   83\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e Mochlos or Makhlokes: JS and the Humanities   87\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eInterchapter IV\u003c\/b\u003e: Speaking of JS; and Its Vicissitudes   123\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003eBildungsheld or Pícaro, Canon and List: A Heterotopology for JS   127\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eInterchapter V\u003c\/b\u003e: Bildung and Built-ins   161\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5. \u003c\/b\u003eVentilating the Tradition: Rashbam and the Coen Brothers   165\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e: Knotted thread, middle game: an \u003ci\u003eenvoi   \u003c\/i\u003e191\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNotes \u003c\/b\u003e  201\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWorks Cited \u003c\/b\u003e  239\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIndex \u003c\/b\u003e  273\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580354326808,"sku":"9780823283941","price":26.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/jewish-studies-as-counterlife-a-report-to-the-academy-paperback-softback-9780823283941","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}