{"product_id":"germanjewish-thought-and-its-afterlife-a-tenuous-legacy-9780253024855","title":"GermanJewish Thought and Its Afterlife  A Tenuous","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough the authors who form the main focus of the book have been thoroughly studied and discussed on many occasions over the past fifty years or so, Liska brings into her analysis a fresh perspective that highlights the elusive Jewish quality at work in the texts under discussion.\u003c\/p\u003e * Partial Answers *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiska's book conducts an insightful investigation into the history of ideas, and she is able to compare and contrast the wide range of thinkers under examination in clear, sophisticated, and nuanced ways. \u003c\/p\u003e * Religious Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI Tradition and Transmission\u003cbr\u003e1. Early Jewish Modernity and Arendt's Rahel\u003cbr\u003e2. Tradition and the Hidden: Arendt Reading Scholem\u003cbr\u003e3. Transmitting the Gap in Time: Arendt and Agamben\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII Law and Narration\u003cbr\u003e4. \"As if Not\": Agamben as Reader of Kafka\u003cbr\u003e5. Kafka, Narrative, and the Law\u003cbr\u003e6. Kafka's Other Job: From Susman to Žižek\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII Messianic Language \u003cbr\u003e7. Pure Languages: Benjamin and Blanchot on Translation \u003cbr\u003e8. Ideas of Prose: Benjamin and Agamben\u003cbr\u003e9. Reading Scholem and Benjamin on the Demonic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIV Exile, Remembrance, Exemplarity\u003cbr\u003e10. Paradoxes of Exemplarity: From Celan to Derrida\u003cbr\u003e11. Two Kinds of Strangers: Celan and Bachmann\u003cbr\u003e12. Exile as Experience and Metaphor: From Celan to Badiou\u003cbr\u003e13. Geoffrey Hartman on Midrash and Testimony\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue: New Angels\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400563892567,"sku":"9780253024855","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253024855.jpg?v=1730470991","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/germanjewish-thought-and-its-afterlife-a-tenuous-legacy-9780253024855","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}