You might also like

Availability alert

More about Cultural Dialectic

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

Book synopsis

This book defines and analyzes the elusive concept of cultural dialectic, as it ambiguously manifests itself in selected works of Ludwig Lewisohn and Cynthia Ozick. Taken separately, the terms «cultural» and «dialectic» each open onto a vast panorama of different - and sometimes competing - significances. Dialectic is understood to represent not the Western philosophical tradition of duality as opposites, but rather the Judaic dialectic, or pilpul, which describes a complementary webbing of consciousness and centerlessness. Lewisohn's and Ozick's works are viewed as unique examples of a complex mesh of Judaic, Western, European, American, and Gentile cultural determinants. A slippery confluence of contrasting characteristics, these writings are both autobiographically non-fictional and fictional; factually true, but also invented.

Book details

Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Cultural Dialectic
• Subtitle: Ludwig Lewisohn and Cynthia Ozick
• Author: Jane Statlander
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780820458496
• ISBN: 9780820458496
• ID: 10020597
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Weight: 666 g
• Dimensions: 161 × 237 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. November 2002

---

---

---