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German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy

German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy

Liska, Vivian

Hardcover

Series: Jewish Literature and Culture

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGerman History

ISBN10: 0253024684
ISBN13: 9780253024688
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Dec 19 2016
Pages: 218
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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