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COMPLIT 224 / HDS 1654 /JEWISHST 224 – Jew Theory

Lamont and Houghton libraries in Fall 2023

COMPLIT 224 / HDS 1654 /JEWISHST 224 – Jew Theory

Semester: Fall
Offered: 2024
Instructor: Saul Zaritt
Meeting Time: T 9:00am-11:45am

This seminar will discuss the possibility of “Jew theory” as a method for theorizing the modern. Beginning with a survey of the history of Jewish studies and its place in the academy, the course will then examine how the figure of the Jew, as symbol and stereotype, enters the work of important thinkers of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century—from Marx to Slezkine, from Rosezweig to Blanchot, Derrida, and Agamben. In parallel we explore the potential of new modes of “Jewish cultural studies” emerging over the last decades in Jewish studies

Offered jointly with: Faculty of Arts & Sciences as JEWISHST 224, Harvard Divinity School as HDS 1654

For more details please visit the Harvard Course Catalog.