The Marrano Way : : Between Betrayal and Innovation / / ed. by Agata Bielik-Robson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Baert, Dennis,; Bielik-Robson, Agata,; Dolgopolski, Sergey,; Gaisin, Aleksandr,; Idziak-Smoczyńska, Urszula,; Lapidot, Elad,; Levy, Antoine,; Lipszyc, Adam,; Liska, Vivian,; Pisano, Libera,; Rosenberg, Göran,; Schwarz, Jan,; Sharvit, Gilad,; Tacik, Przemysław,; Weiss, Daniel H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bielik-Robson, Agata,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts , 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 372 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part 1: Marrano Judaism --; The Wandering Jew: The Anarchic Challenge of a Marrano Legend --; Out of Place (Of Talmudic Marranos) --; Reading the Other? Levinas and the Hidden Tradition of Talmud --; A Swedish Marrano? The Ecumenical Heresies of Rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis --; Part 2: Marrano Philosophy --; Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise: Jewish Philosophy in an Anti-Jewish Guise? --; Thinking Through Identity: The Marranic Epistemology of Franz Rosenzweig --; Marranism as Wittgenstein’s Religious Point of View --; Part 3: Marrano Psychoanalysis --; Heresy and Marranism: The Case of Freud --; On the Marrano Psychotheology of Gender: Freud, Schreber, Frank --; Derrida’s Elsewhere: The Cryptic Life of the Marrano Self --; Part 4: Marrano Literature --; The Emancipation of Yitskhok Bashevis: The Sufferings of a Polygamous Werther in The Man of Dreams --; Classicism as a Marranic Disguise: Hermann Broch’s The Death of Virgil and the Price of Self-Preservation --; Poet – Trickster – Marrano: Else Lasker-Schüler and the Letter that Saves --; Part 5: Marrano Religion(s) --; Solovyov: A Philosophical Marrano? Tsimtsum in Lectures on Divine Humanity --; Metaphysics of Esther: Edith Stein between Aquinas and Scotus --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110768275; 9783110766820; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110994544; 9783110994537
• ISSN: 2199-6962
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110768275
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Agata Bielik-Robson.

The Marrano phenomenon is a still unexplored element of Western culture: the presence of the borderline Jewish identity which avoids clear-cut cultural and religious attribution and – precisely as such – prefigures the advent of the typically modern "free-oscillating" subjectivity. Yet, the aim of the book is not a historical study of the Marranos (or conversos), who were forced to convert to Christianity, but were suspected of retaining their Judaism "undercover." The book rather applies the "Marrano metaphor" to explore the fruitful area of mixture and cross-over which allowed modern thinkers, writers and artists of the Jewish origin to enter the realm of universal communication – without, at the same time, making them relinquish their Jewishness which they subsequently developed as a "hidden tradition." The book poses and then attempts to prove the "Marrano hypothesis," according to which modern subjectivity derives, to paraphrase Cohen, "out of the sources of the hidden Judaism": modernity begins not with the Cartesian abstract ego, but with the rich self-reflexive self of Michel de Montaigne who wrestled with his own marranismo in a manner that soon became paradigmatic to other Jewish thinkers entering the scene of Western modernity, from Spinoza to Derrida. The essays in the volume offer thus a new view of a "Marrano modernity," which aims to radically transform our approach to the genesis of the modern subject and shed a new light on its secret religious life as surviving the process of secularization, although merely in the form of secret traces.