Joel Swanson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3891290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Swanson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Swanson |
| SIGNATURE | SWANSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3168-8579 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Contempt for the Whos? or
This paper examines French philosopher Sarah Kofman's fractured relationships to her identities as Jew and woman. Active participant in postwar debates surrounding deconstruction and psychoanalysis, acclaimed reader of Freud and Nietzsche, and interlocutor of Derrida, Kofman is today most widely remembered for her autobiographical writings about her childhood as a young Orthodox Jewish girl during the Nazi occupation of Paris. Kofman's mother sen…
We Spring from that History
This paper examines the evolution of Jewish identity in the works of writer and critic Bernard Lazare. It suggests that Lazare's oeuvre elucidates one of the central tensions in modern Jewish thought: the division between those thinkers who use the reputedly universalist Greek philosophical tradition as a lens to analyze and critique Judaism, and those who use the Jewish textual tradition to challenge and reconceive non-Jewish philosophy. Lazare …
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We Spring from that History
This paper examines the evolution of Jewish identity in the works of writer and critic Bernard Lazare. It suggests that Lazare's oeuvre elucidates one of the central tensions in modern Jewish thought: the division between those thinkers who use the reputedly universalist Greek philosophical tradition as a lens to analyze and critique Judaism, and those who use the Jewish textual tradition to challenge and reconceive non-Jewish philosophy. Lazare …
Contempt for the Whos? or
This paper examines French philosopher Sarah Kofman's fractured relationships to her identities as Jew and woman. Active participant in postwar debates surrounding deconstruction and psychoanalysis, acclaimed reader of Freud and Nietzsche, and interlocutor of Derrida, Kofman is today most widely remembered for her autobiographical writings about her childhood as a young Orthodox Jewish girl during the Nazi occupation of Paris. Kofman's mother sen…
Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Antisemitism (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Freudian slip (1 work) · German (1 work) · Ideology (1 work) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (1 work)