Thinking in Jewish. - BOYARIN, JONATHAN
KORTE INHOUD
How does one "think" in Jewish? What does it mean to speak in English of Yiddish as Jewish, as a certain intermediary generation of immigrants and children of immigrants from Jewish Eastern Europe has done? A fascination with this question prompted Jonathan Boyarin, one of America's most original thinkers in critical theory and Jewish ethnography, to offer the unexpected Jewish perspective on the vexed issue of identity politics presented here. Boyarin's essays explore the ways in which a Jewish—or, more particularly, Yiddish—idiom complicates the question of identity. Ranging from explorations of a Lower East Side synagogue to Fichte's and Derrida's contrasting notions of the relation between the Jews and the idea of Europe, from the Lubavitch Hasidim to accounts of self-making by Judith Butler and Charles Taylor, Thinking in Jewish will be indispensable reading for students of critical theory, cultural studies, and Jewish studies.
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1996Uitgever: University of Chicago Press218 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0226069273ISBN-13: 9780226069272Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo: [x], 218pp., footnotes & references, appendix, bibliography, index, table of contents. Very fine copy - as new. Volume: Religion and Postmodernism. Chicago-London, University of Chicago Press 1996 [Auteur: BOYARIN, JONATHAN] [Jaar: 1996] [Titel: Thinking in Jewish.]
