A new physiognomy of Jewish thinking
Subtitle: critical theory after Adorno as applied to Jewish thought
By: Aubrey L. Glazer
Series: Continuum studies in Jewish thought; Continuum studies in Jewish thought
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781441133984
Subjects: Critical thinking; Criticism and interpretation; Jewish philosophy; Modern Philosophy
Description: "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)."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-204) and index.