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1 online resource (v, 144 pages) |
| 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 |
| 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. Each chapter emerges from and addresses the circumstances of its composition; a talk to New Jersey undergraduates inviting them to contemplate their lifespans vis-a-vis the life history of the species; a meeting to contemplate Jewish memory outside Europe and after 1945; an inaugural address as the author sought to make sense of leaving his home on the Lower East Side and making a new one in Kansas." "Two chapters on research and teaching in Jewish cultural studies as academic practice develop the notion of Jewish studies as a human science and examine how Jewish historiography, once a deeply conservative discipline, has integrated insights from anthropology and literary cultural studies. Boyarin also shares a dialogue with the Jerusalem-based physicist Martin Land on 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 now the status of human differences."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Judaism and science.
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Judaism and the social sciences.
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Jews -- Historiography
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Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Judaism and culture.
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Jews -- Identity.
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Globalization.
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Difference (Philosophy)
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globalism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
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Difference (Philosophy)
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Globalization
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Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Jews -- Historiography
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Jews -- Identity
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Judaism and culture
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Judaism and science
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Judaism and the social sciences
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Kulturelle Identität
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Juden.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008034826 |
| ISBN |
9780823248056 |
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0823248054 |
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