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dc.contributor.advisorAlpert, Rebecca T. (Rebecca Trachtenberg), 1950-
dc.creatorIsaac, Walter
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-26T19:19:33Z
dc.date.available2020-10-26T19:19:33Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.other864885329
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/1501
dc.description.abstractThe present dissertation is a case study in applied phenomenology, specifically the postcolonial phenomenology of racism theorized by Lewis Gordon and applied to scholarly studies conducted on African American Jews and their kinfolk. My thesis is the following: Presumptively ontological human natures cannot function axiomatically for humanistic research on African American Jews. A humanistic science of Africana Jews must foreground the lived social worlds that permit such Jews to appear as ordinary expressions of humanity. The basic premise here is that subaltern (or denied) humanity exists in a neocolonial social world by virtue of an ordinariness that supervenes on humanity. For example, the more historians consider Africana Jews as ordinary, the more Africana Jews' humanity will appear. And the more human Africana Jews appear, the more inhuman their extraordinary appearance appears. This symbiosis constitutes a basic existential condition. When research on Africana Jews ignores this condition, it succumbs to ontological Jewishnness and other concepts rooted in what postcolonial theorist Frantz Fanon calls the "colonial natural attitude.
dc.format.extent426 pages
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTemple University. Libraries
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dc.subjectPhilosophy
dc.subjectJudaic Studies
dc.subjectAfrican American Studies
dc.subjectAfricana Judaism
dc.subjectBlack Existential Philosophy
dc.subjectBlack Jews
dc.subjectPhilosophical Anthropology
dc.subjectPhilosophy of Race
dc.subjectPostcolonial Phenomenology
dc.titleBeyond Ontological Jewishness: A Philosophical Reflection on the Study of African American Jews and the Social Problems of the Jewish and Human Sciences
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dc.type.genreThesis/Dissertation
dc.contributor.committeememberGordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo), 1962-
dc.contributor.committeememberLevitt, Laura, 1960-
dc.contributor.committeememberJackson, John L., Jr., 1971-
dc.description.departmentReligion
dc.relation.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/1483
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dc.description.degreePh.D.
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