ISBN:
9780253024855
,
9780253024688
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 203 Seiten
,
1 Illustration
Year of publication:
2017
Series Statement:
Jewish literature and culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Liska, Vivian, 1956- author German-Jewish thought and its afterlife
DDC:
943.004924
Keywords:
Jews Intellectual life
;
Germany
;
Jews Civilization
;
Germany
;
Jews Intellectual life
;
Jews Civilization
;
Jews
;
Deutschland
;
Juden
;
Denken
;
Geistesleben
;
Kultur
;
Philosophie
;
Literatur
;
Moderne
;
Postmoderne
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Deutschland
;
Jüdische Literatur
;
Jüdische Philosophie
;
Geschichte 1920-1980
;
Deutschland
;
Jüdische Literatur
;
Jüdische Literatur
;
Geschichte 1920-1980
Abstract:
"The visions of modernity depicted in the writings of major Modernist German-Jewish writers and philosophers manifest, says Vivian Liska, the paradoxical dynamic that the break with tradition invokes figures of thought derived from Jewish tradition. In German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife, Liska innovatively focuses on the changing form, fate and function of messianism, law, exile, election, remembrance, and the transmission of tradition itself in three different temporal and intellectual frameworks: German-Jewish modernism, postmodernism, and the current period. Highlighting these elements of the Jewish tradition in the works of Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan, Liska reflects on dialogues and conversations between them and on the reception of their work. She shows how this Jewish dimension of their writings is transformed, but remains significant in the theories of Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida and how it is appropriated, dismissed or denied by some of the most acclaimed thinkers at the turn of the twenty-first century such as Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, and Alain Badiou."--
Abstract:
Tradition and Transmission -- Law and Narration -- Messianic Language -- Exile, Remembrance, Exemplarity
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
