Table of Contents

00 Heart’s Blood: Derrida and Portia on Translation

By Oona Eisenstadt (Pomona College)

01 Shylock After Auschwitz: the Merchant of Venice on the Post-Holocaust Stage – Subversion, Confrontation, and Provocation

By Arthur Horowitz (Pomona College)

02 Reading the Merchant of Venice Through Adorno

By Zdravko Planinc (McMaster University)

03 Shylock Between Exception and Emancipation: Shakespeare, Schmitt, Arendt

By Julia Reinhard Lupton (University of California, Irvine, UC Irvine)

04 Avoiding Tragedy in the Merchant of Venice

By Paul A Kottman (New School University)

05 Shylock: the Knight of Faith?

By Kenneth S Jackson (Wayne State University)

06 Heart's Blood: Derrida and Portia on Translation

By Oona Eisenstadt (Pomona College)

07 Unfinished Business: a Response to the Symposium ‘the Merchant of Venice and Contemporary Theory’

By Aaron Kunin (Pomona College)

08 The Dare of Democracy: Fear, Faith and Freedom

By Catherine Keller (Drew University)

09 Creation Set Free: the Spirit as Liberator of Nature

By Travis E (Travis Evan) Ables (Vanderbilt University)

10 Nihilism, and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, Law

By Gavin Hyman (University of Lancaster, UK)

11 Out of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation

By Joshua Delpech-Ramey (Rowan Universit, Villanova University)

12 God, Truth, and Witness: Engaging Stanley Hauerwas

By J Aaron Simmons (FURMAN UNIVERSITY, Hendrix College, Vanderbilt University)

13 The Shadow of the Anti-Christ: Nietzsche’s Critique of Christianity

By A D C Cake (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)