Forgetting souls
Lyotard, Adorno, and the Trope of the Jew
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3868079 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward Chalfant (0000-0002-3200-9099, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 54-68 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Research on Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2050-3032 • E-ISSN: 2050-3040 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2050303217732132 |
| OpenAlex | W2756461886 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
In this article, I engage in a criticism of Jean François Lyotard's tropological approach to Judaism, arguing that his articulation of the "the jew" as figural projection serves to establish and rigidify a number of freighted binaries such as those between reason and myth, philosophy and theology, and modern and postmodern. In comparison, I posit Theodor Adorno's approach to tropes of Judaism as one which encompasses Lyotard's productive emphases on the role of forgetting in subject formation while loosening these same binaries
Aesthetics · Art · Criticism · Différance · Epistemology · Forgetting · Judaism · Literature · Metaphysics · Mythology · Postmodernism · Psychoanalysis · Theology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Postmodernism in Literature and Education · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |