German-jewish Thought and Its Afterlife
A Tenuous Legacy
Indiana University Press · Print & ebook · December 19, 2016
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.
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- Who it’s for
- Vivian Liska traces Jewish traditions through German-Jewish writing and their transformations in later theory.
- Genres
- Jewish Literary Criticism, German Literary Criticism, Literary Theory
- Published
- Indiana University Press, December 19, 2016
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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.
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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 ?i?ek, and Alain Badiou.
Jewish Traditions
Vivian Liska traces Jewish traditions through German-Jewish writing and their transformations in later theory.
Come here for
- Messianism, law, exile, election, and remembrance across three intellectual periods
- Kafka, Benjamin, Scholem, Arendt, and Celan in dialogue and reception
Expect
- Attention to tradition’s changing form, fate, and function
- Discussion of Blanchot, Derrida, Agamben, Žižek, and Badiou
Where it sits
| Jewish Literary Criticism | 82% |
|---|---|
| German Literary Criticism | 47% |
| Literary Theory | 23% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- German Literary Criticism
- Religion & Philosophy
- Authors
- Vivian Liska
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Published
- December 19, 2016
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- German Literary Criticism