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- Book Title
- To Make the Hands Impure : Art, Ethical Adventure, the Difficult and the Holy
- Publication Name
- To Make the Hands Impure
- Title
- To Make the Hands Impure
- Subtitle
- Art, Ethical Adventure, the Difficult and the Holy
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0823263525
- EAN
- 9780823263523
- ISBN
- 9780823263523
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Genre
- Art, Literary Criticism, Religion, Philosophy
- Topic
- Individual Philosophers, Judaism / General, General, History & Surveys / Modern, Semiotics & Theory, Subjects & Themes / General
- Release Date
- 02/12/2014
- Release Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 502 Pages
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How can cradling, handling, or rubbing a text be said, ethically, to have made something happen? What, as readers or interpreters, may come off in our hands in as we maculate or mark the books we read? For Adam Zachary Newton, reading is anembodied practice wherein "ethics" becomes a matter of tact--in the doubled sense of touch and regard. With the image of the book lying in the hands of its readers as insistent refrain, To Make the Hands Impure cuts a provocative cross-disciplinary swath through classical Jewish texts, modern Jewish philosophy, film and performance, literature, translation, and the material text. Newton explores the ethics of reading through a range of texts, from the Talmud and Midrash to Conrad's Nostromo and Pascal's Le M morial, from works by Henry Darger and Martin Scorsese to the National September 11 Memorial and a synagogue in Havana, Cuba. In separate chapters, he conducts masterly treatments of Emmanuel Levinas, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Stanley Cavell by emphasizing their performances as readers--a trebled orientation to Talmud, novel, and theater/film. To Make the Hands Impure stages the encounter of literary experience and scriptural traditions--the difficult and the holy--through an ambitious, singular, and innovative approach marked in equal measure by erudition and imaginative daring.
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Fordham University Press
ISBN-10
0823263525
ISBN-13
9780823263523
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203675177
Product Key Features
Book Title
To Make the Hands Impure : Art, Ethical Adventure, the Difficult and the Holy
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Individual Philosophers, Judaism / General, General, History & Surveys / Modern, Semiotics & Theory, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Art, Literary Criticism, Religion, Philosophy
Number of Pages
502 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
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B5800.N395 2014
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Adam Zachary Newton's incisive insights into 'holding the book in hand' shed light on the esthetic and ethical implications encapsulated in the act of reading. Based on a broad spectrum of disciplines and sources--Emmanuel Levinas' Talmudic Readings, literary criticism (Edward Said, Mikhail Bakthin, Roland Barthes...), Analytical philosophy (Stanley Cavell), Medieval Jewish and Arabic philosophy (Ibn Hazm, Ibn Ezra...) to cite but a few--his 'ethics of reading' is an invitation to reconsider the interplay between the hand and the text not as grasping or appropriating but rather as 'proximity'; i.e. as a situation where 'one is drawn out of oneself, toward the elsewhere, toward the other.' -----Joëlle Hansel, Société Internationale de Recherche Emmanuel Levinas (SIREL, Paris), "This is criticism as literature, literature as anthropology, anthropology as ethics. Ambitious and generous, it is a profoundly creative step in the renewal and integration of Jewish and critical discourses." -----Jonathan Boyarin, Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Cornell University, "To Make the Hands Impure brings together Newton's impressive and successful academic/scholarly writing career. But, it does not do so in a way that merely repeats and organizes what he has already done. The book is new and expansive and shows that Newton has not stopped rethinking the questions that have engaged him throughout his career."--Tsvi Blanchard, National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership "This is criticism as literature, literature as anthropology, anthropology as ethics. Ambitious and generous, it is a profoundly creative step in the renewal and integration of Jewish and critical discourses. It will, as Newton says he wishes, doubtless inspire much "countertext, original response."--Jonathan Boyarin, Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Cornell University "Newton's new book heuristically suggests that it is no longer the case that reading Bible is the same as reading any other piece of literature, as Spinoza suggested, but rather that reading any piece of literature is like reading the Bible, if one reads it the way Rabbis do."--Sergey Dolgopolski, University at Buffalo SUNY, "In its important achievement, this book offers a profound rethinking of the postmodern meanings of Jewish tradition. Adam Zachary Newton's privileged tropes of the tactile also stand for his 'tact' of reading as secular midrash. His ethics of reading shows us that the boundaries separating Jewish and other texts ultimately connect the foreign with the native, the distant with the near, without collapsing the two, through an impurity inseparable from the revelation of the other. The utter originality of this book thus consists of its conception of impurity as the redemptive effect of the sacred and its prescient reassertion of Jewish sources in postmodern critical form." -----David Suchoff, Colby College, Adam Zachary Newton's incisive insights into 'holding the book in hand' shed light on the esthetic and ethical implications encapsulated in the act of reading. Based on a broad spectrum of disciplines and sources--Emmanuel Levinas' Talmudic Readings, literary criticism (Edward Said, Mikhail Bakthin, Roland Barthes...), Analytical philosophy (Stanley Cavell), Medieval Jewish and Arabic philosophy (Ibn Hazm, Ibn Ezra...) to cite but a few--his 'ethics of reading' is an invitation to reconsider the interplay between the hand and the text not as grasping or appropriating but rather as 'proximity'; i.e. as a situation where 'one is drawn out of oneself, toward the elsewhere, toward the other.', "Newton's new book, a tapestry of readings that becomes a contrapuntal symphony, heuristically suggests it is no longer the case that reading the Bible is the same as reading any other piece of literature, as Spinoza suggested, but rather that reading any piece of literature is like reading the Bible, if one reads it the way rabbis do." -----Sergey Dolgopolski, University at Buffalo SUNY, "To Make the Hands Impure brings together Newton's impressive and successful academic/scholarly writing career. But it does not do so in a way that merely repeats and organizes what he has already done. The book is new and expansive and shows that Newton has not stopped rethinking the questions that have engaged him throughout his career." --Tsvi Blanchard, National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, "In its important achievement, this book offers a profound rethinking of the postmodern meanings of Jewish tradition. Adam Zachary Newton's privileged tropes of the tactile also stand for his 'tact' of reading as secular midrash. His ethics of reading shows us that the boundaries separating Jewish and other texts ultimately connect the foreign with the native, the distant with the near, without collapsing the two, through an impurity inseparable from the revelation of the other. The utter originality of this book thus consists of its conception of impurity as the redemptive effect of the sacred and its prescient reassertion of Jewish sources in postmodern critical form."--David Suchoff, Colby College "This is criticism as literature, literature as anthropology, anthropology as ethics. Ambitious and generous, it is a profoundly creative step in the renewal and integration of Jewish and critical discourses."-Jonathan Boyarin, Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Cornell University "Newton's new book, a tapestry of readings that becomes a contrapuntal symphony, heuristically suggests it is no longer the case that reading the Bible is the same as reading any other piece of literature, as Spinoza suggested, but rather that reading any piece of literature is like reading the Bible, if one reads it the way rabbis do."--Sergey Dolgopolski, University at Buffalo SUNY "To Make the Hands Impure brings together Newton's impressive and successful academic/scholarly writing career. But it does not do so in a way that merely repeats and organizes what he has already done. The book is new and expansive and shows that Newton has not stopped rethinking the questions that have engaged him throughout his career."--Tsvi Blanchard, National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, "To Make the Hands Impure brings together Newton's impressive and successful academic/scholarly writing career. But, it does not do so in a way that merely repeats and organizes what he has already done. The book is new and expansive and shows that Newton has not stopped rethinking the questions that have engaged him throughout his career."--Tsvi Blanchard, National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, Adam Zachary Newton's incisive insights into 'holding the book in hand' shed light on the esthetic and ethical implications encapsulated in the act of reading. Based on a broad spectrum of disciplines and sources--Emmanuel Levinas' Talmudic Readings, literary criticism (Edward Said, Mikhail Bakthin, Roland Barthes...), Analytical philosophy (Stanley Cavell), Medieval Jewish and Arabic philosophy (Ibn Hazm, Ibn Ezra...) to cite but a few--his 'ethics of reading' is an invitation to reconsider the interplay between the hand and the text not as grasping or appropriating but rather as 'proximity'; i.e. as a situation where 'one is drawn out of oneself, toward the elsewhere, toward the other.', "o Make the Hands Impure brings together Newton's impressive and successful academic/scholarly writing career. But, it does not do so in a way that merely repeats and organizes what he has already done. The book is new and expansive and shows that Newton has not stopped rethinking the questions that have engaged him throughout his career."--Tsvi Blanchard, National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership "This is criticism as literature, literature as anthropology, anthropology as ethics. Ambitious and generous, it is a profoundly creative step in the renewal and integration of Jewish and critical discourses. It will, as Newton says he wishes, doubtless inspire much "countertext, original response."--Jonathan Boyarin, Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Cornell University "Newton's new book heuristically suggests that it is no longer the case that reading Bible is the same as reading any other piece of literature, as Spinoza suggested, but rather that reading any piece of literature is like reading the Bible, if one reads it the way Rabbis do."--Sergey Dolgopolski, University at Buffalo SUNY "Drawing upon a seamless weave of literary theory, philosophical and Jewish texts, Adam Zachary Newton probes the phenomenological and ethical horizons of the act of reading. Deftly employing Levinas s concept of proximity as his overarching hermeneutic strategy, he takes us on a challenging but intellectually exhilarating journey."--Paul Mendes-Flohr, Divinity School, The University of Chicago; professor emeritus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "To Make the Hands Impure brings together Newton's impressive and successful academic/scholarly writing career. But it does not do so in a way that merely repeats and organizes what he has already done. The book is new and expansive and shows that Newton has not stopped rethinking the questions that have engaged him throughout his career." -----Tsvi Blanchard, National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, "o Make the Hands Impure brings together Newton's impressive and successful academic/scholarly writing career. But, it does not do so in a way that merely repeats and organizes what he has already done. The book is new and expansive and shows that Newton has not stopped rethinking the questions that have engaged him throughout his career."--Tsvi Blanchard, National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership "This is criticism as literature, literature as anthropology, anthropology as ethics. Ambitious and generous, it is a profoundly creative step in the renewal and integration of Jewish and critical discourses. It will, as Newton says he wishes, doubtless inspire much "countertext, original response."--Jonathan Boyarin, Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Cornell University "Newton's new book heuristically suggests that it is no longer the case that reading Bible is the same as reading any other piece of literature, as Spinoza suggested, but rather that reading any piece of literature is like reading the Bible, if one reads it the way Rabbis do."--Sergey Dolgopolski, University at Buffalo SUNY "Drawing upon a seamless weave of literary theory, philosophical and Jewish texts, Adam Zachary Newton probes the phenomenological and ethical horizons of the act of reading. Deftly employing Levinas s concept of proximity as his overarching hermeneutic strategy, he takes us on a challenging but intellectually exhilarating journey."--Paul Mendes-Flohr, Divinity School, The University of Chicago; professor emeritus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem "In its important achievement, this book's conception of impurity as the redemptive effect of the sacred offers a profound rethinking of the postmodern meanings of Jewish tradition. Newton's ethics of reading shows us that the boundaries that separate Jewish and other texts ultimately connect the foreign with the native, the distant with the near, without collapsing the two, through an impurity inseparable from the revelation of the other. To Make the Hands Impure will represent an important intervention in the discourse of postmodernism, remaining firmly anchored in that redemptive otherness that only a sacred tradition can provide."--David Suchoff, Colby College, "o Make the Hands Impure brings together Newton's impressive and successful academic/scholarly writing career. But, it does not do so in a way that merely repeats and organizes what he has already done. The book is new and expansive and shows that Newton has not stopped rethinking the questions that have engaged him throughout his career."--Tsvi Blanchard, National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership "This is criticism as literature, literature as anthropology, anthropology as ethics. Ambitious and generous, it is a profoundly creative step in the renewal and integration of Jewish and critical discourses. It will, as Newton says he wishes, doubtless inspire much "countertext, original response."--Jonathan Boyarin, Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Cornell University "Newton's new book heuristically suggests that it is no longer the case that reading Bible is the same as reading any other piece of literature, as Spinoza suggested, but rather that reading any piece of literature is like reading the Bible, if one reads it the way Rabbis do."--Sergey Dolgopolski, University at Buffalo SUNY
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