Jewish Studies As Counterlife : A Report to the Academy.
Newton, Adam Zachary.
Jewish Studies As Counterlife : A Report to the Academy. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (297 pages)
Cover -- JEWISH STUDIES AS COUNTERLIFE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Interchapter I: JS Davka -- 1. Jewish Studies as Lever -- Interchapter II: The Dialectics of Ownership -- 2. Jewish Studies and the Pitchfork -- Interchapter III: "Past its own aim, out to another side" -- 3. Mochlos or Makhlokes: JS and the Humanities -- Interchapter IV: Speaking of JS -- and Its Vicissitudes -- 4. Bildungsheld or Pícaro, Canon and List: A Heterotopology for JS -- Interchapter V: Bildung and Built-ins -- 5. Ventilating the Tradition: Rashbam and the Coen Brothers -- Epilogue: Knotted thread, middle game: an envoi -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
This book seeks to harness the possibilities offered by the evolving collection of forces by which Jewish Studies is constituted and practiced in order to open, refashion, and exemplify possibilities for a humanities to come.
9780823283972
Judaism-Study and teaching (Higher).
Jews-Study and teaching (Higher).
Electronic books.
Jewish Studies As Counterlife : A Report to the Academy. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (297 pages)
Cover -- JEWISH STUDIES AS COUNTERLIFE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Interchapter I: JS Davka -- 1. Jewish Studies as Lever -- Interchapter II: The Dialectics of Ownership -- 2. Jewish Studies and the Pitchfork -- Interchapter III: "Past its own aim, out to another side" -- 3. Mochlos or Makhlokes: JS and the Humanities -- Interchapter IV: Speaking of JS -- and Its Vicissitudes -- 4. Bildungsheld or Pícaro, Canon and List: A Heterotopology for JS -- Interchapter V: Bildung and Built-ins -- 5. Ventilating the Tradition: Rashbam and the Coen Brothers -- Epilogue: Knotted thread, middle game: an envoi -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
This book seeks to harness the possibilities offered by the evolving collection of forces by which Jewish Studies is constituted and practiced in order to open, refashion, and exemplify possibilities for a humanities to come.
9780823283972
Judaism-Study and teaching (Higher).
Jews-Study and teaching (Higher).
Electronic books.