Marla Morris explores Jewish intellectuals in society and in the university using psychoanalytic theory. Morris examines Otherness as experienced by Jewish intellectuals who grapple with anti-Semitism within the halls of academia. She claims that academia breeds uncertainty and chaos.

Introduction: Tropes of Otherness and Jewish Intellectuals
Jewish Intellectuals as a Trope of Otherness
Sites of Learning in Eastern and Central Europe during the Fin-de-Siecle
Madness as A Trope of Otherness
Madness, Historicity and Schooling
The University as a Trope of Otherness: The Dystopic University

MARLA MORRIS is Assistant Professor of Education, Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading at Georgia State University, USA.