Oona Eisenstadt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1430808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oona Eisenstadt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oona |
| FAMILY NAME | Eisenstadt |
| SIGNATURE | EISENSTADT O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Faceless Palestinian
In recent years, a number of books and articles have appeared claiming that Levinas's thought and writing dehumanizes Palestinians, categorizing them as people to whom ethical obligation is not due. In this paper we trace the lineage of this idea and attempt to show that the extreme formulations used by some of Levinas's critics are in error. We begin with a close reading of the interview that is regularly cited in support of the image of the deh…
Levinas and Adorno
The paper uses a comparison of Levinas and Adorno to raise certain questions about the former's thought. Both thinkers utilize Jewish experience as a trope for what eludes systematic conceptualization (particularly the conceptualization of history): the universalization and varying degrees of abstraction required to make this move form the content of the paper's central analysis. However, this analysis is framed in a wider argument about the way …
Hent de Vries, Minimal Theologies
Making room for the Hebrew
Journal Article Making Room for the Hebrew: Luther, Dialectics, and the Shoah Get access Oona Eisenstadt Oona Eisenstadt Oona Eisenstadt is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G3, Canada. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 69, Issue 3, September 2001, Pages 5…
Making Room for the Hebrew
I draw from two works of art—Franz Rosenzweig's “Scripture and Luther” and Peter Kien and Victor Ullmann's The Emperor of Atlantis—a single critique of a dialectical form in which perfect conditions overcome present conditions. Rosenzweig suggests that the dialectic is characteristic of the Luther Bible and of modern German culture; Kien and Ullmann suggest that the dialectic—especially in its most notable form, “the death of death”—is characteri…
The Faceless Palestinian
In recent years, a number of books and articles have appeared claiming that Levinas's thought and writing dehumanizes Palestinians, categorizing them as people to whom ethical obligation is not due. In this paper we trace the lineage of this idea and attempt to show that the extreme formulations used by some of Levinas's critics are in error. We begin with a close reading of the interview that is regularly cited in support of the image of the deh…
Making room for the Hebrew
Journal Article Making Room for the Hebrew: Luther, Dialectics, and the Shoah Get access Oona Eisenstadt Oona Eisenstadt Oona Eisenstadt is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G3, Canada. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 69, Issue 3, September 2001, Pages 5…
Making Room for the Hebrew
I draw from two works of art—Franz Rosenzweig's “Scripture and Luther” and Peter Kien and Victor Ullmann's The Emperor of Atlantis—a single critique of a dialectical form in which perfect conditions overcome present conditions. Rosenzweig suggests that the dialectic is characteristic of the Luther Bible and of modern German culture; Kien and Ullmann suggest that the dialectic—especially in its most notable form, “the death of death”—is characteri…
Hent de Vries, Minimal Theologies
Levinas and Adorno
The paper uses a comparison of Levinas and Adorno to raise certain questions about the former's thought. Both thinkers utilize Jewish experience as a trope for what eludes systematic conceptualization (particularly the conceptualization of history): the universalization and varying degrees of abstraction required to make this move form the content of the paper's central analysis. However, this analysis is framed in a wider argument about the way …
The Faceless Palestinian
In recent years, a number of books and articles have appeared claiming that Levinas's thought and writing dehumanizes Palestinians, categorizing them as people to whom ethical obligation is not due. In this paper we trace the lineage of this idea and attempt to show that the extreme formulations used by some of Levinas's critics are in error. We begin with a close reading of the interview that is regularly cited in support of the image of the deh…
Philosophy (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Dialectic (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works)