Jewishness and the human dimension / Jonathan Boyarin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyarin, Jonathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism and science.

Judaism and the social sciences.

Jews--Historiography.

Jews.

Human ecology--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Human ecology.

Judaism and culture.

Jews--Identity.

Globalization.

Difference (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jewishness and the Human Dimension is a leading scholar's progress report on an effort to bring Jewishness broadly construed into dialogue with a wide range of thought in contemporary criticism, while linking those themes in turn to the question of planetary crisis. Jonathan Boyarin opens with chapters focus on research and teaching in Jewish cultural studies as academic practice and a powerful call from transforming Jewish historiography. In a dialogue with the Jerusalem-based physicist Martin Land, Boyarin explores physical and cultural ideas of futurity and redemption. The book ends with a stark challenge to those who work in the contemporary humanities and social sciences: in order to be able to contribute to the possibility of sustained human life on Earth, we need to interrogate rigorously the status of human differences now.

Contents:

A Jewish introduction to the human sciences

Responsive thinking : cultural studies and Jewish historiography

Seasons and lifetimes

Toward an anthropology of the twentieth century

Tropes of home

A moment of danger, a taste of death

Extinction and difference.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8232-4805-4

OCLC:

810230225