With the Jewish holidays coming right on the heel of Labor Day, it feels finally like it’s time to get back to work. For what it’s worth, this is what I got around to reading this summer into and through the holidays, pretty much in the reverse order in which I read them:
Claire Elise Katz, Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism
Joel Kramer, Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds
Benjamin Pollock, Franz Rosenzweig and the Systematic Task of Philosophy
Ariella Azoulay, The Civil Contract of Photography
Vilem Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography
Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism
Elizabeth Grosz, Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth
Alain Badiou, Deleuze: The Clamor of Being
Deleuze, Foucault
Edmund Husserl, Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology
Elliot Wolfson, A Dream within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination
Asher Biemann, Dreaming of Michelangelo: Jewish Variations on a Modern Theme
Lee Levine, Visual Judaism: Historic Contexts of Jewish Art
Shaul Magid: American Post-Judaism: Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society
What for me is the cohesion of these varied texts speaks precisely to my conception of the field of modern and contemporary Jewish philosophy. At the very least, these are the authors and texts who carried my interest for the last several months.
