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This volume offers an examination of varied forms of expressions of
heresy in Jewish history, thought and literature. Contributions
explore the formative role of the figure of the heretic and of
heretic thought in the development of the Jewish traditions from
antiquity to the 20th century. Chapters explore the role of heresy
in the Hellenic period and Rabbinic literature; the significance of
heresy to Kabbalah, and the critical and often formative importance
the challenge of heresy plays for modern thinkers such as Spinoza,
Freud, and Derrida, and literary figures such as Kafka,
Tchernikhovsky, and I.B. Singer. Examining heresy as a boundary
issue constitutive for the formation of Jewish tradition, this book
contributes to a better understanding of the significance of the
figure of the heretic for tradition more generally.
Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding
post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works
of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in psychoanalysis's relation to
society has emerged, allowing Freud’s account of the
interdependence of religion, ethics, and violence to gain currency
in recent debates on modernity. In that context, the pivotal role
of Freud’s masterpiece, Moses and Monotheism, is widely
recognized. Freud and Monotheism critically examines a range of
discourses surrounding Freud and Moses, taking as its entry point
Freud’s relations to Judaism, his conception of tradition and
history, his theory of the mind, and his model of transgenerational
inheritance. Highlighting the broad impact of Moses and Monotheism
across the humanities, contributors from philosophy, comparative
literature, cultural studies, Jewish studies, psychoanalysis, and
Egyptology come together to illuminate Freud’s book and the
modern world with which it grapples.
Exploring the subject of Jewish philosophy as a controversial
construction site of the project of modernity, this book examines
the implications of the different and often conflicting notions
that drive the debate on the question of what Jewish philosophy is
or could be. The idea of Jewish philosophy begs the question of
philosophy as such. But "Jewish philosophy" does not just reflect
what "philosophy" lacks. Rather, it challenges the project of
philosophy itself. Examining the thought of Spinoza, Moses
Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Hermann Cohen Franz Rosenzweig, Martin
Buber, Margarete Susman, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, and others, the
book highlights how the most philosophic moments of their works are
those in which specific concerns of their "Jewish questions" inform
the rethinking of philosophy's disciplinarity in principal terms.
The long overdue recognition of the modernity that informs the
critical trajectories of Jewish philosophers from Spinoza and
Mendelssohn to the present emancipates not just "Jewish philosophy"
from an infelicitous pigeonhole these philosophers so pointedly
sought to reject but, more important, emancipates philosophy from
its false claims to universalism.
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Contradiction Set Free (Paperback)
Hermann Levin Goldschmidt; Translated by John Koster; Introduction by Willi Goetschel
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First published in in 1976, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt's
Contradiction Set Free, (Freiheit fur den Widerspruch), reflects
the push to explore new forms of critical thinking that gained
momentum in the decade between Theodor Adorno's Negative Dialectics
of 1966 and Paul Feyerabend's Against Method in 1975. The book
articulates Goldschmidt's reclamation of an epistemologically
critical position that acknowledges the deep underlying link
between the modes of production of knowledge and the social and
political life they produce. In signalling a breakout from the
academic rut and its repressive hold, Goldschmidt pointed beyond
the ossified methods of a philosophical discourse whose oppressive
consequences could no longer be ignored.Contradiction Set Free
makes available for the first time in English a pivotal work by one
of the great critical thinkers of the 20th century.
Exploring the subject of Jewish philosophy as a controversial
construction site of the project of modernity, this book examines
the implications of the different and often conflicting notions
that drive the debate on the question of what Jewish philosophy is
or could be. The idea of Jewish philosophy begs the question of
philosophy as such. But "Jewish philosophy" does not just reflect
what "philosophy" lacks. Rather, it challenges the project of
philosophy itself. Examining the thought of Spinoza, Moses
Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Hermann Cohen Franz Rosenzweig, Martin
Buber, Margarete Susman, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, and others, the
book highlights how the most philosophic moments of their works are
those in which specific concerns of their "Jewish questions" inform
the rethinking of philosophy's disciplinarity in principal terms.
The long overdue recognition of the modernity that informs the
critical trajectories of Jewish philosophers from Spinoza and
Mendelssohn to the present emancipates not just "Jewish philosophy"
from an infelicitous pigeonhole these philosophers so pointedly
sought to reject but, more important, emancipates philosophy from
its false claims to universalism.
First published in 1957, The Legacy of German Jewry is a
comprehensive rethinking of the German-Jewish experience.
Goldschmidt challenges the elegiac view of Gershom Scholem, showing
us the German-Jewish legacy in literature, philosophy, and critical
thought in a new light.Part One re-examines the breakthrough to
modernity, tracing the moves of thinkers like Moses Mendelssohn,
building on the legacies of religious figures like the Baal Shem
Tov and radical philosophers such as Spinoza. This vision of
modernity, Goldschmidt shows, rested upon a belief that aremnantsa
of the radical past could provide ideas and energy for reconceiving
the modern world. Goldschmidtas philosophy of the remnant animates
Part Two as well, where his account of the political history of the
Jews in modernity and the riches of Jewish culture as recast in
German-Jewish thought provide insights into Leo Baeck, Hermann
Cohen, and Franz Rosenzweig, among others. Part Three analyzes the
post-Auschwitz complex, and uses the Book of Job to break through
that trauma.Ahead of his time and biblical in his perspective,
Goldschmidt describes the innovative ways that German-Jewish
writers and thinkers anticipated what we now call multiculturalism
and its concern with the Other. Rather than destined to
destruction, the German-Jewish experience is reconceived here as a
past whose unfulfilled project remains urgent and contemporaryaa
dream yet to be realized in practice, and hence a task that still
awaits its completion.
Heinrich Heine's role in the formation of Critical Theory has been
systematically overlooked in the course of the successful
appropriation of his thought by Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and the
legacy they left, in particular for Adorno, Benjamin and the
Frankfurt School. This book examines the critical connections that
led Adorno to call for a "reappraisal" of Heine in a 1948 essay
that, published posthumously, remains under-examined. Tracing
Heine's Jewish difference and its liberating comedy of irreverence
in the thought of the Frankfurt School, the book situates the
project of Critical Theory in the tradition of a praxis of
critique, which Heine elevates to the art of public controversy.
Heine's bold linking of aesthetics and political concerns
anticipates the critical paradigm assumed by Benjamin and Adorno.
Reading Critical Theory with Heine recovers a forgotten voice that
has theoretically critical significance for the formation of the
Frankfurt School. With Heine, the project of Critical Theory can be
understood as the sustained effort to advance the emancipation of
the affects and the senses, at the heart of a theoretical vision
that recognizes pleasure as the liberating force in the fight for
freedom.
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Contradiction Set Free (Hardcover)
Hermann Levin Goldschmidt; Translated by John Koster; Introduction by Willi Goetschel
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First published in in 1976, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt's
Contradiction Set Free, (Freiheit fur den Widerspruch), reflects
the push to explore new forms of critical thinking that gained
momentum in the decade between Theodor Adorno's Negative Dialectics
of 1966 and Paul Feyerabend's Against Method in 1975. The book
articulates Goldschmidt's reclamation of an epistemologically
critical position that acknowledges the deep underlying link
between the modes of production of knowledge and the social and
political life they produce. In signalling a breakout from the
academic rut and its repressive hold, Goldschmidt pointed beyond
the ossified methods of a philosophical discourse whose oppressive
consequences could no longer be ignored.Contradiction Set Free
makes available for the first time in English a pivotal work by one
of the great critical thinkers of the 20th century.
Heinrich Heine's role in the formation of Critical Theory has been
systematically overlooked in the course of the successful
appropriation of his thought by Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and the
legacy they left, in particular for Adorno, Benjamin and the
Frankfurt School. This book examines the critical connections that
led Adorno to call for a "reappraisal" of Heine in a 1948 essay
that, published posthumously, remains under-examined. Tracing
Heine's Jewish difference and its liberating comedy of irreverence
in the thought of the Frankfurt School, the book situates the
project of Critical Theory in the tradition of a praxis of
critique, which Heine elevates to the art of public controversy.
Heine's bold linking of aesthetics and political concerns
anticipates the critical paradigm assumed by Benjamin and Adorno.
Reading Critical Theory with Heine recovers a forgotten voice that
has theoretically critical significance for the formation of the
Frankfurt School. With Heine, the project of Critical Theory can be
understood as the sustained effort to advance the emancipation of
the affects and the senses, at the heart of a theoretical vision
that recognizes pleasure as the liberating force in the fight for
freedom.
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Critical Secularism (Paperback)
Emily Apter, Ronald A.T. Judy, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Aamir R. Mufti, Akeel Bilgrami, …
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R378
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At a moment in history when the world seems increasingly drawn into
a violent "clash of fundamentalisms," this boundary 2 special
issue, Critical Secularism, brings together renowned figures in
cultural studies and literary theory to critically rethink the
narratives of secularization that characterize modern culture.
Implicit within this collection is a consideration of the fate, in
the twenty-first century, and in the postcolonial world, of the
legacies of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. While recognizing
the homogenizing tendencies of post-Enlightenment culture, these
scholars collectively militate against a simplistic rejection of
the Enlightenment and its theoretical legacies as mere tools of
colonization, used to legitimize the domination of various cultural
and ethnic "others." Rather, these essays explore the potential
that a renewal of secularism has for progressive culture and
politics in this historical moment, when religiously inflected
politics and violence are escalating around the globe.In this
collection, prominent literary and cultural theorists discuss the
crisis that secularist theory faces in postcolonial contexts,
and-in a recuperative effort-focus on secularism from the
perspectives of various marginalized groups (religious and cultural
minorities, women, and colonized peoples.). Essays explore
secularist expression across a range of cultural and literary
texts- from Indian medieval lyrics to the contemporary fiction of
the Levant. Other contributors offer critical reevaluations of
previous scholarship on secularism, and plumb the relationship
between literary criticism/theory and the politics of secularism.
Contributors. Emily Apter, Rashmi Bhatnagar, Akeel Bilgrami, Rashmi
Dube, Reena Dube, Renu Dube, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Willi Goetschel,
Stathis Gourgouris, David M. Halperin, Gil Hochberg, Ronald Judy,
Aamir R. Mufti, Edward W. Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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