Reluctant Theologians : Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Edmond Jabes / Beth Hawkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawkins, Beth, Author.

Series:

Studies in Religion and Literature

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Beth Hawkins focuses on the problematic faith in the works of Kafka, Celan, and Jabès to reevaluate the notions of God and covenant in light of Nietzsche's "death of God" hypothesis. the divine-human relation. In Reluctant Theologians, she shows that Kafka, Celan, and Jabès offer as a testament, as three unique instances of Kiddush Ha-Shem (sanctification of the divine name), to a divine source that persists at the same time as it is being continuously reconstituted in the moment of writing. What connects Kafka, Celan, and Jabès to a postmodern philosophy is their shared belief that a specifically Jewish ethic can serve as a model for a universal ethic.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

I Franz Kafka: Creating a Theology of the Void

1 Setting the Stage

2 The Revaluative Process: Description, Rejection, and Prescription

II Paul Celan: The Silence of Relation

3 Toward a Logic of the ‘‘Both/And’’

4 Counting and Recounting

5 Building the Space Between

III Edmond Jabe`s: The Death of God and the Emerging Law of the Other

6 Posing the Questions

7 Murdering God: YAEL

8 Abolishing the Graven Image: Elya and Aely

9 The God of the Void: El, or the Last Book

AFTERWORD

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

0-8232-9248-7

OCLC:

1350688616