A new physiognomy of Jewish thinking : critical theory after Adorno as applied to Jewish thought / Aubrey L. Glazer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glazer, Aubrey L., author.

Series:

Continuum studies in Jewish thought.

Continuum studies in Jewish thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969--Criticism and interpretation.

Adorno, Theodor W.

Critical thinking.

Jewish philosophy.

Philosophy, Modern--21st century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking is a search for authenticity that combines critical thinking with a yearning for heartfelt poetics. A physiognomy of thinking addresses the figure of a life lived where theory and praxis are unified. This study explores how the critical essays on music of German-Jewish thinker, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) necessarily accompany the downfall of metaphysics. By scrutinizing a critical juncture in modern intellectual history, marked in 1931 by Adorno's founding of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, neglected applications of Critical Theory to Jewish Thought become possible. This study proffers a constructive justification of a critical standpoint, reconstructively shown how such ideals are seen under the genealogical proviso of re/cognizing their original meaning. Re/cognition of A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking redresses neglected applications of Negative Dialectics, the poetics of God, the metaphysics of musical thinking, reification in Zionism, the transpoetics of Physics and Metaphysics, as well as correlating Aesthetic Theory to Jewish Law (halakhah)."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Foreword: Adorno's 'Dialectic of Enlightenment - A theological exploration (Tal Sessler)

Preface: Criterion for Attuning to New Jewish Thinking Introduction

Part I: Construction

1. New Imaginal Thinking: Origins and future of Machshevet Yisrael after negative dialectics

2. From Thinking the Last God of Thought to the Poetic God Without End: Between thinking poetry and poetics of alterity

3. Thinking of Redemption/Redemption of Thinking: Towards a metaphysics of music temporality after Adorno

Part II: Reconstruction

4. Exile on Ben Yehudah Street: How reification of Israel Forgets to Remember Zion

5. Returning to Authenticity: From jargon to praxis of critical Judaism

6. From Jewish Radicals to Radical Jews: Truth of Testimony as Model for Community

Part III: Genealogical Proviso

7. Awakening to the Transpoetics of Physics and Metaphyics: Correlating infinity in religion and science

8. Aesthetic Theory of Halakhah: how a poet/ics of theory and praxis enhances existence

9. Sprachespiel, Halakhah and Jewish Thought: Necessary Incompleteness in Wittgenstein and Gödel

10. Hearing Redemption, Suspicions of Utopia: Can musical thinking redeem religion?

Afterword (Elliot R. Wolfson)

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [196]-204) and index.

ISBN:

9786613271365

9781472548443

1472548442

9781283271363

1283271362

9780826438973

0826438970

OCLC:

713010122