A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking: Critical Theory After Adorno as Applied to Jewish Thought

by Aubrey L. Glazer

Publisher:

Continuum

, 2011

A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking is a search for authenticity that combines critical thinking with a yearning for heartfelt poetics. A physiognomy of thinking addresses the figure of a life lived where theory and praxis are unified. This study explores how the critical essays on music of German-Jewish thinker, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) necessarily accompany the downfall of metaphysics. By scrutinizing a critical juncture in modern intellectual history, marked in 1931 by Adorno's founding of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, neglected applications of Critical Theory to Jewish Thought become possible. This study proffers a constructive justification of a critical standpoint, reconstructively shown how such ideals are seen under the genealogical proviso of re/cognizing their original meaning. Re/cognition of A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking redresses neglected applications of Negative Dialectics, the poetics of God, the metaphysics of musical thinking, reification in Zionism, the transpoetics of Physics and Metaphysics, as well as correlating Aesthetic Theory to Jewish Law (halakhah).

Features

Offers a unique analysis of Adorno and the Frankfurt School in correlation to Jewish thought.
Discusses how the essence of music and aesthetics can facilitate contemporary Jewish philosophy.
Provides an integral framework to reading, thinking and being Jewish.

Contents

Foreword: Adorno's 'Dialectic of Enlightenment - A theological exploration (Tal Sessler) \ Preface: Criterion for Attuning to New Jewish Thinking Introduction \ Part I: Construction \ 1. New Imaginal Thinking: Origins and future of Machshevet Yisrael after negative dialectics \ 2. From Thinking the Last God of Thought to the Poetic God Without End: Between thinking poetry and poetics of alterity \ 3. Thinking of Redemption/Redemption of Thinking: Towards a metaphysics of music temporality after Adorno \ Part II: Reconstruction \ 4. Exile on Ben Yehudah Street: How reification of Israel Forgets to Remember Zion \ 5. Returning to Authenticity: From jargon to praxis of critical Judaism \ 6. From Jewish Radicals to Radical Jews: Truth of Testimony as Model for Community \ Part III: Genealogical Proviso \ 7. Awakening to the Transpoetics of Physics and Metaphyics: Correlating infinity in religion and science \ 8. Aesthetic Theory of Halakhah: how a poet/ics of theory and praxis enhances existence \ 9. Sprachespiel, Halakhah and Jewish Thought: Necessary Incompleteness in Wittgenstein and Gödel \ 10. Hearing Redemption, Suspicions of Utopia: Can musical thinking redeem religion? \ Afterword (Elliot R. Wolfson)  \ Bibliography \ Index

Product Details

• Title: A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking: Critical Theory After Adorno as Applied to Jewish Thought
• Author: Aubrey L. Glazer
• Publisher: Continuum
• Print Publication Date: 2011
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781441103314, 9781441146120, 1441146121, 1441103317
• Resource ID: LLS:9781441103314
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-15T15:41:37Z

About the Author

Aubrey L. Glazer received his PhD in Hebrew Hermeneutics from the University of Toronto, Canada. He is Senior Rabbi of the Jewish Community Center of Harrison, NY, USA.