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The starting point for this compilation is the wish to rethink the
concept of antisemitism, race and gender in light of Sartre's
pioneering Reflexions sur la Question Juive seventy years after its
publication. The book gathers texts by prestigious scholars from
different disciplines in the Humanities and the Social Sciences,
with the objective or revisiting this work locating it within the
setting of two other pioneering - and we argue, related -
publications, namely Simone De Beauvoir's Le deuxieme sexe of 1949
and Franz Fanon's Peau noire et masques blancs of 1952. This
particular and original standpoint sheds new light on the different
meanings and political functions of the concept of antisemitism in
a political and historical context marked by the post-modern
concepts of multi-ethnicity and multiculturalism.
Kafka's work has been attributed a universal significance and is
often regarded as the ultimate witness of the human condition in
the twentieth century. Yet his work is also considered paradigmatic
for the expression of the singular that cannot be subsumed under
any generalization. This paradox engenders questions not only
concerning the meaning of the universal as it manifests itself in
(and is transformed by) Kafka's writings but also about the
expression of the singular in literary fiction as it challenges the
opposition between the universal and the singular. The
contributions in this volume approach these questions from a
variety of perspectives. They are structured according to the
following issues: ambiguity as a tool of deconstructing the
pre-established philosophical meanings of the universal; the
concept of the law as a major symbol for the universal meaning of
Kafka's writings; the presence of animals in Kafka's texts; the
modernist mode of writing as challenge of philosophical concepts of
the universal; and the meaning and relevance of the universal in
contemporary Kafka reception. This volume examines central aspects
of the interplay between philosophy and literature.
In the past decades the "German-Jewish phenomenon" (Derrida) has
increasingly attracted the attention of scholars from various
fields: Jewish studies, intellectual history, philosophy, literary
and cultural studies, critical theory. In all its complex
dimensions, the post-enlightenment German-Jewish experience is
overwhelmingly regarded as the most quintessential and charged
meeting of Jews with the project of modernity. Perhaps for this
reason, from the eighteenth century through to our own time it has
been the object of intense reflection, of clashing interpretations
and appropriations. In both micro and macro case-studies, this
volume engages the multiple perspectives as advocated by manifold
interested actors, and analyzes their uses, biases and ideological
functions over time in different cultural, disciplinary and
national contexts. This volume includes both historical treatments
of differing German-Jewish understandings of their experience -
their relations to their Judaism, general culture and to other Jews
- and contemporary reflections and competing interpretations as to
how to understand the overall experience of German Jewry.
Kafka's work has been attributed a universal significance and is
often regarded as the ultimate witness of the human condition in
the twentieth century. Yet his work is also considered paradigmatic
for the expression of the singular that cannot be subsumed under
any generalization. This paradox engenders questions not only
concerning the meaning of the universal as it manifests itself in
(and is transformed by) Kafka's writings but also about the
expression of the singular in literary fiction as it challenges the
opposition between the universal and the singular. The
contributions in this volume approach these questions from a
variety of perspectives. They are structured according to the
following issues: ambiguity as a tool of deconstructing the
pre-established philosophical meanings of the universal; the
concept of the law as a major symbol for the universal meaning of
Kafka's writings; the presence of animals in Kafka's texts; the
modernist mode of writing as challenge of philosophical concepts of
the universal; and the meaning and relevance of the universal in
contemporary Kafka reception. This volume examines central aspects
of the interplay between philosophy and literature.
An advanced introduction to Benjamin's work and its actualization
for our own times. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) has emerged as one
of the leading cultural critics of the twentieth century. His work
encompasses aesthetics, metaphysical language and narrative
theories, German literary history, philosophies of history, the
intersection of Marxism and Messianic thought, urban topography,
and the development of photography and film. Benjamin defined the
task of the critic as one that blasts endangered moments of the
past out of the continuum of history so that they attain new
significance. This volume of new essays employs this principle of
actualization as its methodological program in offering a new
advanced introduction to Benjamin's own work. The essays analyze
Benjamin's central texts, themes, terminologies, and genres in
their original contexts while simultaneously situating them in new
parameters, such as contemporary media, memory culture,
constructions of gender, postcoloniality, and theories of urban
topographies. The Companion brings together an international group
of established and emerging scholars to explicate Benjamin's
actuality from a multidisciplinary perspective. Designed for
audiences interested in literary criticism, cultural studies, and
neighboring disciplines, the volume serves as a stimulus for new
debates about Benjamin's intellectual legacy today. Contributors:
Wolfgang Bock, Willi Bolle, Dianne Chisholm, Adrian Daub, Dominik
Finkelde, Eric Jarosinski, Lutz Koepnick, Vivian Liska, Karl Ivan
Solibakke, Marc de Wilde, Bernd Witte Rolf J. Goebel is
Distinguished Professor of German and Chair of the Department of
WorldLanguages and Cultures at the University of Alabama in
Huntsville.
In German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife, Vivian 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 Zizek, and Alain Badiou.
In German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife, Vivian
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.
In the past decades the "German-Jewish phenomenon" (Derrida) has
increasingly attracted the attention of scholars from various
fields: Jewish studies, intellectual history, philosophy, literary
and cultural studies, critical theory. In all its complex
dimensions, the post-enlightenment German-Jewish experience is
overwhelmingly regarded as the most quintessential and charged
meeting of Jews with the project of modernity. Perhaps for this
reason, from the eighteenth century through to our own time it has
been the object of intense reflection, of clashing interpretations
and appropriations. In both micro and macro case-studies, this
volume engages the multiple perspectives as advocated by manifold
interested actors, and analyzes their uses, biases and ideological
functions over time in different cultural, disciplinary and
national contexts. This volume includes both historical treatments
of differing German-Jewish understandings of their experience -
their relations to their Judaism, general culture and to other Jews
- and contemporary reflections and competing interpretations as to
how to understand the overall experience of German Jewry.
An advanced introduction to Benjamin's work and its actualization
for our own times. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) has emerged as one
of the leading cultural critics of the twentieth century. His work
encompasses aesthetics, metaphysical language and narrative
theories, German literary history, philosophies of history, the
intersection of Marxism and Messianic thought, urban topography,
and the development of photography and film. Benjamin defined the
task of the critic as one that blasts endangered moments of the
past out of the continuum of history so that they attain new
significance. This volume of new essays employs this principle of
actualization as its methodological program in offering a new
advanced introduction to Benjamin's own work. The essays analyze
Benjamin's central texts, themes, terminologies, and genres in
their original contexts while simultaneously situating them in new
parameters, such as contemporary media, memory culture,
constructions of gender, postcoloniality, and theories of urban
topographies. The Companion brings together an international group
of established and emerging scholars to explicate Benjamin's
actuality from a multidisciplinary perspective. Designed for
audiences interested in literary criticism, cultural studies, and
neighboring disciplines, the volume serves as a stimulus for new
debates about Benjamin's intellectual legacy today. Contributors:
Wolfgang Bock, Willi Bolle, Dianne Chisholm, Adrian Daub, Dominik
Finkelde, Eric Jarosinski, Lutz Koepnick, Vivian Liska, Karl Ivan
Solibakke, Marc de Wilde, Bernd Witte Rolf J. Goebel is
Distinguished Professor of German and Chair of the Department of
WorldLanguages and Cultures at the University of Alabama in
Huntsville.
In 2004 the one-hundredth anniversary of Theodor Herzl's death was
commemorated throughout the world. The myth of Herzl, as it has
developed over the last century, has perhaps become more important
than the historical figure. This volume contains revised and
expanded essays, which were originally delivered as lectures at
international Herzl centennial conferences in Antwerp, London, and
Jerusalem. Topics treated include the Herzl myth, Herzl's
nationalism and Zionism, his self-understanding and image, his
authorship of comedies and philosophical tales, Herzl and Africa,
as well as his reception in Israeli and other literature. Zweig
films are also considered within this same context.
With contributions from a dozen American and European scholars,
this volume presents an overview of Jewish writing in post World
War II Europe. Striking a balance between close readings of
individual texts and general surveys of larger movements and
underlying themes, the essays portray Jewish authors across Europe
as writers and intellectuals of multiple affiliations and hybrid
identities. Aimed at a general readership and guided by the idea of
constructing bridges across national cultures, this book maps for
English-speaking readers the productivity and diversity of Jewish
writers and writing that has marked a revitalization of Jewish
culture in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Great Britain, the
Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, and Russia."
Taking as its starting point Franz Kafka's complex relationship
to Jews and to communities in general, When Kafka Says We explores
the ambivalent responses of major German-Jewish writers to
self-enclosed social, religious, ethnic, and ideological groups.
Vivian Liska shows that, for Kafka and others, this ambivalence
inspired innovative modes of writing which, while unmasking the
oppressive cohesion of communal groupings, also configured original
and uncommon communities. Interlinked close readings of works by
German-Jewish writers such as Kafka, Else Lasker-Schuler, Nelly
Sachs, Paul Celan, Ilse Aichinger, and Robert Schindel illuminate
the ways in which literature can subvert, extend, or reconfigure
established visions of communities. Liska's rich and astute
analysis uncovers provocative attitudes and insights on a subject
of continuing controversy."
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