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Volume 13, Issue 1

James Blair Historical Review

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"My Daughter, Flee Temptation!" "O, Do Go, Dear Mother!": Gender, Race, And Body Politics In Charlotte Brontë’S Jane Eyre And Harriet Jacobs' Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, Harper Mccall

Undergraduate Honors Theses

The following thesis explores the constructs of gender and race in relation to the bodies of Jane Eyre and Linda Brent in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Harriet Jacobs. Particularly, 19th Century sociopolitical forces (e.g., British Imperialism, Antebellum American life, and the legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade) constrict the womens' bodies as they progress through the novels' plots. By using Frederick Douglass' "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave," both intertextual references and resonant comparisons can be made between the oppression and resistance narratives characteristic of Jane Eyre and Incidents. Such communicative frameworks reveal larger …

The Uninvited Host: Goa And The Parties Not Meant For Its People, R. Benedito Ferrão, Angela Ferrão, Maria Vanessa De Sa

Arts & Sciences Articles

Despite its history as a favored destination for hippies from the West in the 1960s and 1970s, present-day party tourism in Goa largely attracts Indian travelers. This is a product of the post-1990s liberalization of the Indian economy, coupled with the exoticization of Goa, which has rendered it a pleasure periphery to the subcontinent. Such difference, and attraction, occurs because, unlike most of the rest of the India that annexed Goa, the region was a Portuguese colony until 1961. Goa’s Lusitanization suggests a more liberal milieu, social gatherings with music and dancing being commonplace culturally, for example. While tourism has …

Civic Virtue In Non-Ideal Republics, M. Victoria Costa

Arts & Sciences Articles

This paper defends a neorepublican account of civic virtue as consisting of stable traits of character, understood in broadly Aristotelian terms, that exhibit excellences associated with the role of citizen, and that contribute to the secure protection of freedom as non-domination. Such an account is important for the neorepublican project because neither laws nor social norms can yield reliable support for republican freedom without a parallel input from civic virtue. The paper emphasizes the need to distinguish civic virtue from desirable norms, which can operate in tandem. Against other neorepublican accounts of civic virtue, it argues that the primary function …

Decoloniality And Tropicality: Part Two, Anita Lundberg, Hannah Regis, (...), R. Benedito Ferrão, Et Al.

Arts & Sciences Articles

The papers collected together in this special issue on the theme ‘decoloniality and tropicality’ discuss and demonstrate how we can move towards disentangling ourselves from persistent colonial epistemologies and ontologies. Engaging theories of decoloniality and postcolonialism with tropicality, the articles explore the material poetics of philosophical reverie; the 'tropical natureculture' imaginaries of sex tourism, ecotourism, and militourism; deep readings of an anthropophagic movement, ecocritical literature, and the ecoGothic; the spaces of a tropical flâneuseand diasporic vernacular architecture; and in the decoloniality of education, a historical analysis of colonial female education and a film analysis for contemporary educational praxis.

Decolonizing The Tropics: Part One, Anita Lundberg, Sophie Chao, R. Benedito Ferrão, Ashton Sinamai, Et Al.

Arts & Sciences Articles

This special issue is a collection of papers that addresses and enacts the theme of decolonizing the tropics. Each article provides a sense of how we can untangle ourselves from entrenched colonial epistemologies and ontologies through detailed articulations of research practice. Drawing together humanities and social sciences, the papers collectively address questions of whose voices are heard or silenced, what positions we write from, how we are allowed to articulate our ideas, and through which mediums we present our research. In doing so, the contributions foreground the critical importance of these and other questions in any move towards decolonizing the …

James Blair Historical Review: Volume 12, Issue 2

James Blair Historical Review

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A Review Of Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Better Than Wine: Love, Poetry, And Prayer In The Thought Of Franz Rosenzweig, Zachary Braiterman

Journal of Textual Reasoning

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Replaying The Disappearing Feminist Act: Jewish Studies And The Postmodern Turn, Marla B. Brettschneider

Journal of Textual Reasoning

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A Review Of People Of The Book: Canon, Meaning, Authority, Steven Kepnes

Journal of Textual Reasoning

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A Review Of People Of The Book: Canon, Meaning, Authority, Adam Seligman

Journal of Textual Reasoning

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Hung Like A Horse: Male Stripping In Recent Films, Graham Ward

Journal of Textual Reasoning

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Designing Men: Reading The Male Body As Text, Philip Culbertson

Journal of Textual Reasoning

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Reading Bodies As Texts

Journal of Textual Reasoning

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A Response To Jay Harris, David Myers

Journal of Textual Reasoning

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A Response To Jay Harris, Allan Arkush

Journal of Textual Reasoning

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A Response To Jay Harris, Ruth Abrams

Journal of Textual Reasoning

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The Israeli Declaration Of Independence: “A Camel Is A Horse Produced By A Committee”, Jay Harris

Journal of Textual Reasoning

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Contents

Journal of Textual Reasoning

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Old Series: Volume 6, Number 3 (December 1997)

Journal of Textual Reasoning

In this issue we engage two subjects which, though they are arguably at the heart of anything that might be called "textual reasoning," have not as of yet been explored in the journal. The two subjects are Zionism and liturgy, or more specifically, feminist liturgy. The dialogue that is the first article in this issue emerges from an on-line discussion from this past summer. It has been edited for linear coherence, but hopefully not at the expense of the passion of the original (though some of the fire was doused). Elon Sunshine did a wonderful job editing the dialogue—not even …

Old Series: Volume 6, Number 2 (May/June 1997)

Journal of Textual Reasoning

In this issue we continue the discussion of JUDAISM IN THE CURRICULUM, a discussion initiated by Aryeh Cohen who solicited contributions on this matter. We would like to renew this call for submissions. The matter is important and concerns most of us. How is Judaism represented in institutions of higher (or lower?) learning? What does it mean to educate ABOUT rather than IN Judaism? What about the inside vs. the outside perspective? How much critical scholarship should be part of our courses if our students often lack much of the traditional knowledge or familiarity with content of the sacred literature …

Old Series: Volume 6, Number 1 (February 1997)

Journal of Textual Reasoning

This issue continues a conversation about martyrdom in/and the Talmud that began at the PostModern Jewish Philosophy Network Talmud Institute in Princeton in August, 1995. Liz Shanks’ article and the responses to it in Volume 5.1 started the on-line conversation. I published an article (“Towards an Erotics of Martyrdom”) in Textual Reasoning 5.2, hoping that it would widen the circle of discussants further. With the essays in this issue that hope is realized.

There are three different groups of responses in this issue. The first group are those who are responding directly to the article and the sugya, and the …

Old Series: Volume 5, Number 4 (December 1996)

Journal of Textual Reasoning

This is the final issue of Textual Reasoning for 1996. In it we introduce you to a recent restatement of the central doctrine of the Jewish rationalist tradition, the doctrine of ethical monotheism. Lenn Goodman’s book GOD OF ABRAHAM, erudite and elegantly written, is a philosophical book and a work whose philosophical statements are formulated out of an engaged reading of the classical Jewish sources. In this sense it is an instance of ‘textual reasoning.’ Furthermore, with its emphasis on the ongoing project of a mutual interpretation of the God of the Hebrew prophets and the Platonic idea of the …

Old Series: Volume 5, Number 3 (November 1996)

Journal of Textual Reasoning

Welcome to the latest issue of TEXTUAL REASONING. As many of you may know, Peter Ochs has moved himself into the wings and behind the scenes, and a new editorial team has taken over from him. You will find our introductions below. Needless to say we are appreciative for Peter’s giving us this opportunity, and will also be looking for him to continue to play an active role in upcoming issues and activities.

Old Series: Volume 5, Number 2 (July 1996)

Journal of Textual Reasoning

It is motze tisha b’av, and these summer greetings come to you in a spirit of change, hopeful yet sober. A complex day, is it not, for Jews in the scribal/pharisaic/rabbinic tradition of textual reasoning? A day of terrible loss, against a backdrop of ominous politics, that also became a time “to do for the Lord” – eyt la’asot lashem.” Our tradition of oral Torah appears to have achieved cultural authority by way of suffering. After this day, according to the mishnah in Berachot 40a, the pharisaic sages recited “l’olam u’l’olam” after psalms once recited in the Temple, one “forever” …

Old Series: Volume 5, Number 1 (March 1996)

Journal of Textual Reasoning

This issue is redacted at another time of terrible loss in Israel, the bus bombing and terrorist attacks of February 22. Included among the murdered, Matthew Eisenfeld z”l and Sarah Duker z”l were known to many members of this Network: Matthew, a rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary, scholar, poet, spokesperson for peace; Sarah, graduate student in science at the Hebrew University, scholar, poet, spokesperson for peace. “For those do I weep, My ears stream tears, Comfort has left me, None can restore My spirit, My children are desolate.”

We do not yet know what contributions, if any, postmodern …

Old Series: Volume 4, Number 3 (September 1995)

Journal of Textual Reasoning

For our shared work, this is a year pregnant with many new possibilities. We have many new plans and projects to tell you about, including a new Network Editorial Board with nine new Contributing Editors. But all we’ll mention now is that our new Managing Editor is David Seidenberg of the Jewish Theological Seminary. The time to tell you about the rest is after the New Year...For now, the present (issue) is too full to leave room for (words about) the future! G’mar Hatimah Tovah!

Old Series: Volume 4, Number 2 (June 1995)

Journal of Textual Reasoning

POSTMODERN JEWISH REASONING(S). How does that sound to you? On May 22, about eighteen of us joined host Eugene Borowitz for a delightful conference at Hebrew Union College (NYC) on postmodern Jewish philosophy and text reading. In-between sessions on Sifre Devarim and Mishnah Eduyot, we reflected on what to call what we were doing (a practice we have indulged in only too often in this journal). Philosophers, rabbis, text scholars, literary folk, we gathered around selections from these texts, read first in chevrutot, then in the context of background readings on modern and postmodern pedagogy broadly considered: modes of transmitting …

Old Series: Volume 4, Number 1 (February 1995)

Journal of Textual Reasoning

We don’t read alone. You might consider this a rallying cry of at least a significant sub-group of the Postmodern Jewish Philosophy Network. We read with. “Ehyeh imach,” says God to Moses out of the Burning Bush, “I will be with you”; and being-with is a postmodern theme, in three senses: We don’t read alone. This means, first, that the text we read is not a naked text whose meaning displays itself to anyone who would see it. It is a text that speaks in certain ways to certain groups of people. We read with-others as part of some group. …

Old Series: Volume 3, Number 4 (December 1994)

Journal of Textual Reasoning

Rosenzweig and Levinas (along with Buber and Cohen) are the principle parents of the founding members of this Network, and Gibbs’ book brings them into close dialogue with each other, with their peers in late modern/early postmodern thought, and with us. This is therefore a very important book and a very important occasion, for both the Academy and the Postmodern Jewish Philosophy Network. All are welcome. So please come!

For a warmup, to get you ready, we enclose a preliminary review of Gibbs’ book, by Martin Srajek (he’ll be offering different words at the Boston event). In a future issue, …