Introduction: Jews, theory, and ends / Shai Ginsburg, Martin Land, and Jonathan Boyarin -- Leo Lowenthal and the Jewish renaissance / Martin Jay -- The Palestinian Nakba and the Arab-Jewish melancholy: an essay on sovereignty and translation / Yehouda Shenhav -- The ends of Ladino / Andrew Bush -- The last Jewish intellectual: Derrida and his literary betrayal of Levinas / Sarah Hammerschlag -- Jews, in theory / Sergey Dolgopolski -- The Jewish animot: of Jews as animals / Jay Geller -- The off-modern turn: modernist humanism and vernacular cosmopolitanism in Shklovsky and Mandelshtam / Svetlana Boym -- Old Testament realism in the writings of Erich Auerbach / James I. Porter -- Buber versus Scholem and the figure of the Hasidic Jew: a literary debate between two political theologies / Hannan Hever -- Against the "attack on linking": rearticulating the Jewish intellectual for today / Martin Land -- Recovering futurity: theorizing the end and the end of theory / Elliot R. Wolfson.
Summary:
"This volume assesses the role of Jews, as both agents and figures, in the development of critical and literary theory in the twentieth century and beyond. Its topics range from biblical criticism to the relationship between Derrida and Levinas, from Mizrachi Jews in Israel to the Zionisms of Buber and Scholem"-- Provided by publisher.
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