Jews and Marxism, Jews and the avant-garde, Jews and modernism, Jews and the nation, Jews and “abstraction,"-- the linkage between Jews and critical theory lurks in the history of Europe, in its collapse following World War I, and in the fleeting transfer of world dominance to the United States. But…
Andrew Bush, Professor of Hispanic Studies, Vassar College; Erin Carlston, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill; Gregory Flaxman, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill; Jonathan Freedman, Professor of English and American Studies, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
“Aufklärung, Jewish Protestantism, and European Islamophobia” -&- “A Theory about Jews: Contemporary Antisemitic Conceptualizations in Poland"
“Jews, in Theory” -&- "The Time That was Found-The Jew and the Wandering Signifier" -&- “Speaking of the End and the End of Speaking”
"Auerbach's Dante" -&- “The Last Jewish Intellectual: Derrida and the Literary Turn in Practices of Jewish Identification”
Martin Jay, the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History, UC Berkeley
“The Figure of the Hasidic Jew: Revisiting the Buber-Scholem Debate” -&- “The Jewish Animot: Of Jews as Animals”
Seyla Benhabib, the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University
"Against 'the Attack on Linking': Rearticulating ‘the Jewish Intellectual’ for Today” -&- "Off-Modern Jew: Estrangement and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism"