Reluctant Theologians: Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Edmond Jabes

By Beth Hawkins

Book Overview

Beth Hawkins focuses on the problematic faith in the works of Kafka, Celan, and Jab s to reevaluate the notions of God and covenant in light of Nietzsche's "death of God" hypothesis. the divine-human relation. In Reluctant Theologians, she shows that Kafka, Celan, and Jab s offer as a testament, as three unique instances of Kiddush Ha-Shem (sanctification of the divine name), to a divine source that persists at the same time as it is being continuously reconstituted in the moment of writing. What connects Kafka, Celan, and Jab s to a postmodern philosophy is their shared belief that a specifically Jewish ethic can serve as a model for a universal ethic.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823222012
• ISBN13: 9780823222018
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"