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"The visions of modernity depicted in the writings of major Modernist German-Jewish writers and philosophers manifest, says Vivian Liska, the paradoxical dynamic that the break with tradition invokes figures of thought derived from Jewish tradition. In German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife, Liska innovatively focuses on the changing form, fate and function of messianism, law, exile, election, remembrance, and the transmission of tradition itself in three different temporal and intellectual frameworks: German-Jewish modernism, postmodernism, and the current period. Highlighting these elements of the Jewish tradition in the works of Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan, Liska reflects on dialogues and conversations between them and on the reception of their work. She shows how this Jewish dimension of their writings is transformed, but remains significant in the theories of Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida and how it is appropriated, dismissed or denied by some of the most acclaimed thinkers at the turn of the twenty-first century such as Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, and Alain Badiou."--

Abstract
Victims of an uncanny legal system pervade Kafka's writings. Whether the representation of the law in these works implies a sacrificial logic depends significantly on the meaning assigned to Kafka's idea of the law. Despite the innumerable interpretations of Kafka's law-related texts it remains uncertain whether the law in his works is to be understood primarily in juridical, social, and political terms or in metaphysical, theological, and religious ones. This uncertainty, besides eliciting myriad, sometimes contradictory, interpretations, has inspired numerous views, themselves often disparate and conflicting, about the relationship between law and sacrifice in Kafka's works. The present article explores this relationship and how it has been regarded by some of his most important interpreters.

Die Infragestellung eines für die Gegenwart maßgeschneiderten Expressionismus verweist auf eine grundlegende Problematik, die das Sprechen über die Avantgarde allgemein betrifft. Gedankliche und ästhetische Aktualisierungsversuche, die sich als begriffsbestimmende Rückblicke aus einer Perspektive der Gegenwart verstehen, verraten die Grundprämissen der Avantgarde und münden in jene ordnungsbeflissene Kategorisierungswut, die sie unterwandern wollte. Nicht mehr die Aktualität der historischen Avantgarde, sondern deren Unzeitgemäßheit steht jüngst zur Debatte. Während der Begriff der Aktualität die Möglichkeit einer Bestimmung der eigenen Gegenwart und das Wissen um die ihr entsprechende Kunst voraussetzt, schwankt das doppelbödige Kriterium des Unzeitgemäßen zwischen kritischer Distanz und Anachronismus. Die Lücke zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft setzt aber ein "Jetzt" frei, aus dessen Sicht das expressionistische Erbe als Trauma und Traum der Moderne angenommen werden kann, ohne es in eine positivistische Geschichtlichkeit zu verbannen oder es einem jeweils neuen "Heute" anzupassen. (ICI2)

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Jean-Paul Sartre's Réflexions sur la question juive -- Inauthenticity and Violence: A Critique of Sartre's Portrait of the Anti-Semite -- Antisemitism as Existential Crime -- The Occulted Paragraph: Menahem Brinker's Translation and Reading of Sartre's Réflexions sur la Question Juive -- From Recognition to Acknowledgment: Placing the Sartre's Jewish Question into Question -- Sartre's Algerian Jewish Question -- The Jewish Question Versus the "Jewish Problem:" Sartre Amid a Strange Silence -- Being and Jewishness: Levinas Reader of Sartre -- Sartre's Multidirectional Anti-Racism -- Minor-to-Minor Intersections: Jewish and Aboriginal Australians Between Antisemitism and Racism -- The Antisemite, the Democrat, and the Jew: Sartre and the Rest -- Sartre's Reflections on the Jewish Question: Avatars of its reception in Argentina and Brazil -- Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, and Carla Lonzi: A Bizarre Genealogy -- Deathmurder: From the Language of Humanity to the Question of Who Can Be Murdered -- Orpheus, pied-noir: Sartre, Sénac, and the Poetics of Algerian Becoming -- "Le juif, c'est moi": Sartre, Blanchot, Badiou -- "Women, Blacks, Jews": Overcoming Otherness -- Indeterminate Jews -- List of Contributors -- Index

This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it comprises research monographs, collections of essays and annotated editions from the 18th century to the present. The term German-Jewish literature refers to the literary work of Jewish authors writing in German to the extent that Jewish aspects can be identified in these. However, the image of Jews among non-Jewish authors, often determined by anti-Semitism, is also a factor in the history of German-Jewish relations as reflected in literature. This series provides an appropriate forum for research into the whole problematic area.

Rethinking the idea of Europe -- Jan Patočka on Europe in the aftermath of Europe / Rodolphe Gasché -- Post-imperial Europe : the return of the indistinct / Vladimir Biti -- Can the European heritage be redeemed? Confessions of a Europeanist / Gerard Delanty -- Europe and a geopolitics of hope / Luiza Bialasiewicz -- Crisscrossing projections -- Eurotypes after Eurocentrism : mixed feelings in an uncomfortable world / Joep Leersen -- Rock, mirror, mirage : Europe, elsewhere / Lucia Boldrini -- You say Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité? Japanes critical perceptions of the idea of Europe : a preliminary reflection for the regeneration of universal humanism / Shigemi Inaga -- East looks west and west looks east : images of Russia / Aage Hansen-Löve -- The heterotopias of Europe -- On the margins of (the idea of) Europe : a tale of two Galicias as constructive comparativism / César Domínguez and Nikol Dziub -- United Europe and disunited Yugoslavia / Damir Arsenijević -- "A glorious leeway" : Walter Benjamin's idea of Europe / Vivian Liska.

This volume includes both historical treatments of differing German-Jewish understandings of their experience - their relations to their Judaism, general culture and to other Jews - and contemporary reflections and competing interpretations as to how to understand the overall experience of German Jewry. Steven E. Aschheim, Hebrew University, Israel; Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

This volume includes both historical treatments of differing German-Jewish understandings of their experience – their relations to their Judaism, general culture and to other Jews – and contemporary reflections and competing interpretations as to how to understand the overall experience of German Jewry.

Highlighting the seminal role of German Jewish intellectuals and ideologues in forming and transforming the modern Jewish world, this volume analyzes the political roads taken by German Jewish thinkers; the impact of the Holocaust on the Central and East European Jewish intelligentsia; and the conundrum of modern Jewish identity. Several of German Jewry's most outstanding figures such as Scholem, Strauss, and Kohn are discussed. Inspired by Steven E. Aschheim's work, several contributors focus on the fraught relationship between German and East European Jews (the so-called Ostjuden) and between German Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors. More generally, this book examines how Central European Jewish thinkers reacted to the terrible crises of the twentieth century—to war, genocide, and the existential threat to the very existence of the Jewish people. It is essential reading for those interested in the triumphs and tragedies of modern European Jewry