cam a22 4500 551388846 CHVBK 20200829035537.0 m d cr |n |||||||| 140724s2015 nyu sb 001 0 eng d 2014029448 978-0-8232-6351-6 (hardback) 978-0-8232-6352-3 (paper) (SERSOL)ssj0001370864 (WaSeSS)ssj0001370864 DLC eng DLC DLC WaSeSS rda B5800 .N395 2015 190 23 REL040090 LIT006000 bisacsh Newton Adam Zachary author To make the hands impure art, ethical adventure, the difficult and the holy Adam Zachary Newton First edition. New York Fordham University Press 2015 1 online resource (498 pages) text txt rdacontent/eng computer c rdamedia/eng online resource cr rdacarrier/eng Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-481) and indexes. Machine generated contents note: -- Prologue: Meaningful Adjacencies -- Introduction: Laws of Tact and Genre -- Part one / Hands -- 1. Pledge, Turn, Prestige: Worldliness and Sanctity in Edward Said and Emmanuel Levinas -- 2. Sollicitation and Rubbing the Text: Reading Said and Levinas Reading -- 3. Henry Darger, Blaise Pascal, and the Book in Hand -- Part two / Genres -- 4. Ethics of Reading I: Levinas and the Talmud -- 5. Ethics of Reading II: Bakhtin and the Novel -- 6. Ethics of Reading III: Cavell and Theater/Cinema -- Part three / Languages -- 7. Abyss, Volcano, and the Frozen Swirl of Words: The Difficult and the Holy in Agnon, Bialik, and Scholem -- Epilogue: The Book in Hand, Again -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Proper Names -- Index of Topics. Lizenzbedingungen können den Zugang einschränken. License restrictions may limit access. "How can cradling, handling, or rubbing a text be said, ethically, to have made something happen? What, as readers or interpreters, may come off in our hands in as we maculate or mark the books we read? For Adam Zachary Newton, reading is anembodied practice wherein "ethics" becomes a matter of tact in the doubled sense of touch and regard. With the image of the book lying in the hands of its readers as insistent refrain, To Make the Hands Impure cuts a provocative cross-disciplinary swath through classical Jewish texts, modern Jewish philosophy, film and performance, literature, translation, and the material text. Newton explores the ethics of reading through a range of texts, from the Talmud and Midrash to Conrad's Nostromo and Pascal's Le Mémorial, from works by Henry Darger and Martin Scorsese to the National September 11 Memorial and a synagogue in Havana, Cuba. In separate chapters, he conducts masterly treatments of Emmanuel Levinas, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Stanley Cavell by emphasizing their performances as readers a trebled orientation to Talmud, novel, and theater/film. To Make the Hands Impure stages the encounter of literary experience and scriptural traditions he difficult and the holy through an ambitious, singular, and innovative approach marked in equal measure by erudition and imaginative daring"-- Lévinas, Emmanuel Philosophy, Modern 20th century Philosophy, Modern 21st century Art and morals Ethics in literature Reader-response criticism http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unibasch-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3239951 Uni Basel: Volltext BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 Ebook Central Perpetual and DDA E-Books von 360MarcUpdates IDSBB A145 A145 145VT IDSBB 100 1- Newton Adam Zachary author IDSBB 856 40 http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unibasch-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3239951 Uni Basel: Volltext SWISSBIB 355342642