%0 Journal Article
%T Forgetting souls: Lyotard, Adorno, and the Trope of the Jew
%A Eric Chalfant
%J Critical Research on Religion
%@ 2050-3040
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2050303217732132
%X In this article, I engage in a criticism of Jean Fran£¿ois Lyotard¡¯s tropological approach to Judaism, arguing that his articulation of the ¡°the jew¡± as figural projection serves to establish and rigidify a number of freighted binaries such as those between reason and myth, philosophy and theology, and modern and postmodern. In comparison, I posit Theodor Adorno¡¯s approach to tropes of Judaism as one which encompasses Lyotard¡¯s productive emphases on the role of forgetting in subject formation while loosening these same binaries
%K Jean Francois Lyotard
%K Theodor Adorno
%K Antisemitism
%K Jewish Tropes
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2050303217732132