{"product_id":"jews-and-the-ends-of-theory-paperback-softback-9780823281992","title":"Jews and the Ends of Theory (Paperback \/ softback) 9780823281992","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eJews and the Ends of Theory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eShai Ginsburg (Edited by), Martin Land (Edited by), Jonathan Boyarin (Edited by), Svetlana Boym (Contributions by), Sergey Dolgopolski (Contributions by), Jay Geller (Contributions by), Sarah Hammerschlag (Contributions by), Martin Land (Contributions by), Martin Jay (Contributions by), Elliot R. Wolfson (Contributions by), Andrew Bush (Contributions by), Hannan Hever (Contributions by), James I. Porter (Contributions by), Yehouda Shenhav (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823281992\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 4 December 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.526 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\u003eTheory, as it's happened across the humanities, has often been coded as \"Jewish.\" This collection of essays seeks to move past explanations for this understanding that rely on the self-evident (the historical centrality of Jews to the rise of Critical Theory with the Frankfurt School) or stereotypical (psychoanalysis as the \"Jewish Science\") in order to show how certain problematics of modern Jewishness enrich theory.\u003cbr\u003e In the range of violence and agency that attend the appellation \"Jew,\" depending on how, where, and by whom it's uttered, we can see that Jewishness is a rhetorical as much as a sociological fact, and that its rhetorical and sociological aspects, while linked, are not identical. Attention to this disjuncture helps to elucidate the questions of power, subjectivity, identity, figuration, language, and relation that modern theory has grappled with. These questions in turn implicate geopolitical issues such as the relation of a people to a state and the violence done in the name of simplistic identitarian ideologies.\u003cbr\u003e Clarifying a situation where \"the Jew\" is not readily or unproblematically legible, the editors propose what they call \"spectral reading,\" a way to understand Jewishness as a fluid and rhetorical presence. While not divorced from sociological facts, this spectral reading works in concert with contemporary theory to mediate pessimistic and utopian impulses, experiences, and realities.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eContributors:\u003c\/b\u003e Svetlana Boym, Andrew Bush, Sergey Dolgopolski, Jay Geller, Sarah Hammerschlag, Hannan Hever, Martin Land, Martin Jay, James I. Porter, Yehouda Shenhav, Elliot R. Wolfson\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\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Jews, Theory, and Ends\u003cbr\u003e Shai Ginsburg, Martin Land, and Jonathan Boyarin, 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e Leo Lowenthal and the Jewish Renaissance\u003cbr\u003e Martin Jay, 27\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e The Palestinian Nakba and the Arab-Jewish Melancholy: An Essay on Sovereignty and Translation\u003cbr\u003e Yehouda Shenhav, 48\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e The Ends of Ladino\u003cbr\u003e Andrew Bush, 65\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Last Jewish Intellectual: Derrida and His Literary Betrayal of Levinas\u003cbr\u003e Sarah Hammerschlag, 88\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5. \u003c\/b\u003eJews, in Theory\u003cbr\u003e Sergey Dolgopolski, 108\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6.\u003c\/b\u003e The Jewish Animot: Of Jews as Animals\u003cbr\u003e Jay Geller, 142\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Off-Modern Turn: Modernist Humanism and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in Shklovsky and Mandelshtam\u003cbr\u003e Svetlana Boym, 164\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8.\u003c\/b\u003e Old Testament Realism in the Writings of Erich Auerbach\u003cbr\u003e James I. Porter, 187\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9. \u003c\/b\u003eBuber versus Scholem and the Figure of the Hasidic Jew: A Literary Debate between Two Political Theologies\u003cbr\u003e Hannan Hever, 225\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e10.\u003c\/b\u003e Against the \"Attack on Linking\": Rearticulating the \"Jewish Intellectual\" for Today\u003cbr\u003e Martin Land, 263\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e11. \u003c\/b\u003eRecovering Futurity: Theorizing the End and the End of Theory\u003cbr\u003e Elliot R. Wolfson, 293\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/b\u003e 313\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e 317\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":52580330635544,"sku":"9780823281992","price":26.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/jews-and-the-ends-of-theory-paperback-softback-9780823281992","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}