Noam J Pines
Biographic Data
| ID | 220780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noam J Pines |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noam J |
| FAMILY NAME | Pines |
| SIGNATURE | PINES N J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife
Reviewed by: German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy by Vivian Liska Noam Pines Vivian Liska, German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. xi + 205 pp. Vivian Liska's book examines the literary and philosophical legacy of five major German-Jewish writers—Kafka, Benjamin, Scholem, Arendt, and Celan—beyond the purview of the immediate "German" and "Jewish" cultural and his…
A Light that Burns to the Bone
The essay explores the epiphanic qualities of trauma in Jean Améry's account of torture. For Améry, torture emerges as a site of revelation in which a fundamental gap is exposed between the two poles of human existence: the figural capacity to represent and raw, unmediated experience. Employing this critical distinction, Améry challenged Arendt's notion of "the banality of evil" in a phenomenological analysis drawn from his own experience. The es…
A Radical Advocacy
Di kliatshe, a novella published in 1873 by Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh, has been credited as one of the first literary works to register the failure of the Haskalah to achieve Jewish integration into Russian society. However, analysis of the literary and historical contexts in which this work emerged shows how Di kliatshe also engaged in a subtle literary dialogue with non-Jewish authors in order to promote a radical ethical position on the questi…
The Love of a Dog
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Book notes/Boeknotas
Gastrow, Shelagh 1988. WHO'S WHO IN SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS NUMBER TWO. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. (pp. 365. R25,95.) Paxton, John (Ed.) THE STATESMAN'S YEAR‐BOOK 1987–88, 124th Edition. London: Macmillan Reference Books, 1987, 1695 pp. Mueller, Dennis C. (Ed.) 1983. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GROWTH. New Haven: Yale University Press. Pp. 283. £19,50. Von Laue, Theodor. 1988. THE WORLD REVOLUTION OF WESTERNIZATION. Oxford: Oxford University Press. P…
The Politics of Economic Power in Southern Africa
Professor Julius Lewin February 1907-September 1984
Professor Julius Lewin
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Professor Julius Lewin
Professor Julius Lewin February 1907-September 1984
Book notes/Boeknotas
Gastrow, Shelagh 1988. WHO'S WHO IN SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS NUMBER TWO. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. (pp. 365. R25,95.) Paxton, John (Ed.) THE STATESMAN'S YEAR‐BOOK 1987–88, 124th Edition. London: Macmillan Reference Books, 1987, 1695 pp. Mueller, Dennis C. (Ed.) 1983. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GROWTH. New Haven: Yale University Press. Pp. 283. £19,50. Von Laue, Theodor. 1988. THE WORLD REVOLUTION OF WESTERNIZATION. Oxford: Oxford University Press. P…
The Politics of Economic Power in Southern Africa
The Love of a Dog
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
A Radical Advocacy
Di kliatshe, a novella published in 1873 by Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh, has been credited as one of the first literary works to register the failure of the Haskalah to achieve Jewish integration into Russian society. However, analysis of the literary and historical contexts in which this work emerged shows how Di kliatshe also engaged in a subtle literary dialogue with non-Jewish authors in order to promote a radical ethical position on the questi…
German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife
Reviewed by: German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy by Vivian Liska Noam Pines Vivian Liska, German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. xi + 205 pp. Vivian Liska's book examines the literary and philosophical legacy of five major German-Jewish writers—Kafka, Benjamin, Scholem, Arendt, and Celan—beyond the purview of the immediate "German" and "Jewish" cultural and his…
A Light that Burns to the Bone
The essay explores the epiphanic qualities of trauma in Jean Améry's account of torture. For Améry, torture emerges as a site of revelation in which a fundamental gap is exposed between the two poles of human existence: the figural capacity to represent and raw, unmediated experience. Employing this critical distinction, Améry challenged Arendt's notion of "the banality of evil" in a phenomenological analysis drawn from his own experience. The es…
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