The Marrano way : between betrayal and innovation / edited by Agata Bielik-Robson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bielik-Robson, Agata, editor.

Series:

Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts

Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts ; v.19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish authors.

Crypto-Jews.

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, [2022]

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

Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Marrano Judaism

The Wandering Jew: The Anarchic Challenge of a Marrano Legend

Out of Place (Of Talmudic Marranos)

Reading the Other? Levinas and the Hidden Tradition of Talmud

A Swedish Marrano? The Ecumenical Heresies of Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis

Part 2: Marrano Philosophy

Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise: Jewish Philosophy in an Anti-Jewish Guise?

Thinking Through Identity: The Marranic Epistemology of Franz Rosenzweig

Marranism as Wittgenstein's Religious Point of View

Part 3: Marrano Psychoanalysis

Heresy and Marranism: The Case of Freud

On the Marrano Psychotheology of Gender: Freud, Schreber, Frank

Derrida's Elsewhere: The Cryptic Life of the Marrano Self

Part 4: Marrano Literature

The Emancipation of Yitskhok Bashevis: The Sufferings of a Polygamous Werther in The Man of Dreams

Classicism as a Marranic Disguise: Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil and the Price of Self-Preservation

Poet - Trickster - Marrano: Else Lasker-Schüler and the Letter that Saves

Part 5: Marrano Religion(s)

Solovyov: A Philosophical Marrano? Tsimtsum in Lectures on Divine Humanity

Metaphysics of Esther: Edith Stein between Aquinas and Scotus

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-11-076827-5