Inhalt: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction An Unhistorical History of Tsimtsum: A Break with Neoplatonism? -- Part 1: Tsimtsum and the Jewish Tradition -- The Midrashic Background of the Doctrine of Divine Contraction: Against Gershom Scholem on Tsimtsum -- Tsimtsum between the Bible and Philosophy: Levinas, Luria, and Genesis 1 -- Hasidic Thought and Tsimtsum’s Linguistic Turn -- Part 2: Tsimtsum and Modern Philosophy -- Tsimtsum and the Root of Finitude -- Unfolding the Enfolded: Schelling and Lurianic Kabbalah -- Tsimtsum, Lichtung, and the Leap of Bestowing Refusal: Kabbalistic and Heideggerian Metaontology in Dialogue -- Taking Space Seriously: Tehiru, Khora and the Freudian Void -- The Retreat of the Poet in Walter Benjamin’s “Two Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin” -- “The Kabbalistic Problem is not Specifically Theological”: Franz Rosenzweig on Tsimtsum -- Tsimtsum as Eclipse: Anthropomorphism and Transcendence in Buber and Horkheimer -- Part 3: Tsimtsum after the Holocaust -- Tsimtsum as the Traumnabel of Modern Jewish Philosophy: Between History and Revelation -- Tsimtsum and Political Theology in the Thought of Gershom Scholem -- ‘Abyss Calls Unto Abyss’: Tsimtsum and Kenosis in the Rupture of God-forsakenness -- Traces of Tsimtsum: Berkovits, Fackenheim, Levinas -- Transcendental Tsimtsum: Levinas’s mythology of meaning -- Derrida Denudata: Tsimtsum and the Derridean Metaphysics of Non-Presence -- Tsimtsum: Media and Arts -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index This volume is the first-ever collection of essays devoted to the Lurianic concept of tsimtsum. It contains eighteen studies in philosophy, theology, and intellectual history, which demonstrate the historical development of this notion and its evolving meaning: from the Hebrew Bible and the classical midrashic collections, through Kabbalah, Isaac Luria himself and his disciples, up to modernity (ranging from Spinoza, Böhme, Leibniz, Newton, Schelling, and Hegel to Scholem, Rosenzweig, Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, Levinas, Jonas, Moltmann, and Derrida) |
