Amir Eshel
Biographic Data
| ID | 693734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amir Eshel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amir |
| FAMILY NAME | Eshel |
| SIGNATURE | ESHEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Against the Power of Time
On a cold day, not long before Christmas 1996, the narrator of W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz and the protagonist, Jacques Austerlitz, arrive in Greenwich, England. After climbing up through Greenwich Park, they reach the Royal Observatory. There, while viewing different measuring devices, regulators, and chronometers, Jacques Austerlitz bursts into one of the most decisive monologues of the book a poetic eruption, I would argue, crucial to the unders…
Cosmopolitanism and Searching for the Sacred Space in Jewish Literature
From its onset in Stoicism, cosmopolitanism encompassed both ars vitae and a philosophical attitude that equated the space of the polis with that of the entire cosmos. In relating space to human existence and to death, Stoicism followed the archaic notion that human existence is fundamentally connected to and manifested in space. Indeed, as Mircea Eliade and others pointed out, it was through the placing of a sign of human being in space that geo…
Wolfgang Hildesheimers Weg als Jude und Deutscher
German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age
Amir Eshel, South Central Review, Vol. 19/20, Vol. 19, no. 4 - Vol. 20, no. 1, Murdering Marianne?: Violence, Gender and Representation in French Literature and Film (Winter, 2002 - Spring, 2003), pp. 142-144
Aspects of the Present
Zeit der Zasur. Judische Dichter im Angesicht der Shoah
Zeit der Zasur
Schreiben auf Jüdisch? Writing in Jewish
Eternal Present
For Yehuda Amichai's devoted readers, these stanzas look very familiar in their unique combination of the profane and the celestial. Indeed, these verses draw an intriguing line by combining the ostensibly divided realms of the sacrilegious and the sanctified in a single gesture. The resemblance of the two stanzas is further highlighted by the similarity of their rhetorical structure--supposition, elaboration, and simile: "The world is. . ."; "An…
Eternal Present
For Yehuda Amichai's devoted readers, these stanzas look very familiar in their unique combination of the profane and the celestial. Indeed, these verses draw an intriguing line by combining the ostensibly divided realms of the sacrilegious and the sanctified in a single gesture. The resemblance of the two stanzas is further highlighted by the similarity of their rhetorical structure--supposition, elaboration, and simile: "The world is. . ."; "An…
Against the Power of Time
On a cold day, not long before Christmas 1996, the narrator of W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz and the protagonist, Jacques Austerlitz, arrive in Greenwich, England. After climbing up through Greenwich Park, they reach the Royal Observatory. There, while viewing different measuring devices, regulators, and chronometers, Jacques Austerlitz bursts into one of the most decisive monologues of the book a poetic eruption, I would argue, crucial to the unders…
Cosmopolitanism and Searching for the Sacred Space in Jewish Literature
From its onset in Stoicism, cosmopolitanism encompassed both ars vitae and a philosophical attitude that equated the space of the polis with that of the entire cosmos. In relating space to human existence and to death, Stoicism followed the archaic notion that human existence is fundamentally connected to and manifested in space. Indeed, as Mircea Eliade and others pointed out, it was through the placing of a sign of human being in space that geo…
Aspects of the Present
Eternal Present
For Yehuda Amichai's devoted readers, these stanzas look very familiar in their unique combination of the profane and the celestial. Indeed, these verses draw an intriguing line by combining the ostensibly divided realms of the sacrilegious and the sanctified in a single gesture. The resemblance of the two stanzas is further highlighted by the similarity of their rhetorical structure--supposition, elaboration, and simile: "The world is. . ."; "An…
Zeit der Zasur. Judische Dichter im Angesicht der Shoah
Zeit der Zasur
Schreiben auf Jüdisch? Writing in Jewish
Eternal Present
For Yehuda Amichai's devoted readers, these stanzas look very familiar in their unique combination of the profane and the celestial. Indeed, these verses draw an intriguing line by combining the ostensibly divided realms of the sacrilegious and the sanctified in a single gesture. The resemblance of the two stanzas is further highlighted by the similarity of their rhetorical structure--supposition, elaboration, and simile: "The world is. . ."; "An…
Eternal Present
For Yehuda Amichai's devoted readers, these stanzas look very familiar in their unique combination of the profane and the celestial. Indeed, these verses draw an intriguing line by combining the ostensibly divided realms of the sacrilegious and the sanctified in a single gesture. The resemblance of the two stanzas is further highlighted by the similarity of their rhetorical structure--supposition, elaboration, and simile: "The world is. . ."; "An…
Wolfgang Hildesheimers Weg als Jude und Deutscher
German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age
Amir Eshel, South Central Review, Vol. 19/20, Vol. 19, no. 4 - Vol. 20, no. 1, Murdering Marianne?: Violence, Gender and Representation in French Literature and Film (Winter, 2002 - Spring, 2003), pp. 142-144
Aspects of the Present
Against the Power of Time
On a cold day, not long before Christmas 1996, the narrator of W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz and the protagonist, Jacques Austerlitz, arrive in Greenwich, England. After climbing up through Greenwich Park, they reach the Royal Observatory. There, while viewing different measuring devices, regulators, and chronometers, Jacques Austerlitz bursts into one of the most decisive monologues of the book a poetic eruption, I would argue, crucial to the unders…
Cosmopolitanism and Searching for the Sacred Space in Jewish Literature
From its onset in Stoicism, cosmopolitanism encompassed both ars vitae and a philosophical attitude that equated the space of the polis with that of the entire cosmos. In relating space to human existence and to death, Stoicism followed the archaic notion that human existence is fundamentally connected to and manifested in space. Indeed, as Mircea Eliade and others pointed out, it was through the placing of a sign of human being in space that geo…
Art (8 works) · Literature and Cultural Memory (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · German History and Society (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · German legal, social, and political studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Theology (3 works)