Stéphane Mosès ›Displacements‹ : Selected Essays on German-Jewish Literature and Modernity.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noor, Ashraf.

Series:

Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts Series

Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts Series ; v.21

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.

Summary:

This series focuses on the Jewish textual tradition as well as the ways it evolves in response to new intellectual, historical, social and political contexts. Fostering dialogue between literary, philosophical, political and religious perspectives, this series, which consists of original scholarship and proceedings of international conferences, reflects contemporary concerns of Jewish Studies in the broadest sense.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

Contents

Translator's Introduction

I Approaches to Paul Celan

1 Poppy and Memory

2 The Feast of the Gods: A Mythological Theme in Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann

3 Paul Celan as Translator

4 Poetics of Memory in Paul Celan

5 The Inscription of the Catastrophe

6 Stations of Reading in the Late Word

7 Else Lasker-Schüler, Rose Ausländer, Paul Celan: Three Jerusalem Poems

8 The Passage of Trumpets

9 When Language Becomes Voice

10 A Note on the Conversation in the Mountains

11 Paul Celan's Angels

12 Six Poems by Paul Celan

II Displacements

1 Goethe and the Tradition

2 Goethe's The New Paris

3 Georg Büchner: Danton's Death - Tragedy and Revolution

4 Sketch for an Anatomy of the Witz

III Philosophical Figures of Jewish Modernity

1 Normative and Critical Modernity

2 The Critique of Ontology in Franz Rosenzweig

3 Judaism and Christianity in Franz Rosenzweig: Two Forms of Eternity

4 Walter Benjamin and the Crisis of Tradition

5 Gershom Scholem: What Future Is There for Theology?

6 Emmanuel Lévinas: Beyond Being

Bibliography

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110754223

3110754223

OCLC:

1429239214