ISBN:
9780253062079
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9780253062086
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, [3], 234, [1] Seiten
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Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
New Jewish philosophy and thought
Uniform Title:
Gershom Scholem : politisches, esoterisches und historiographisches Schreiben
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Weidner, Daniel Father of Jewish mysticism
DDC:
296.833092
Keywords:
Scholem, Gershom
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Jewish scholars Biography
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Mysticism Judaism
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Judaism Historiography
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Jews Identity
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Scholem, Gershom 1897-1982
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Mystik
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Judentum
Abstract:
"The Father of Jewish Mysticism offers an incisive look at the early life and writings of Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), the father of modern Jewish mysticism and a major 20th-century Jewish intellectual thinker. Daniel Weidner offers the first full-length study, published in English, of Scholem thought. Scholem, a historian of Kabbalah and sharp critic of Jewish assimilation, played a major role in the study and popularization of Jewish mysticism. Through his work on Kabbalah, Scholem turned the closed world of mystical texts into a force for Jewish identity. Skillfully drawing on Scholem's early diaries and writings, The Father of Jewish Mysticism introduces a young, soon-to-be legendary intellectual in search of himself and Judaism"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Intellectual history and writing : what it means to read Gershom Scholem -- Revolt and romanticism : a first language -- Confusion and polemics : taking a position -- Asceticism and silence : gaining authority -- Esoteric Zionism : politics and language -- Victory's despair : reality and crisis -- Looking back : rewriting the past -- Language and truth : first steps -- Lamentations : thinking language -- Tradition, teaching, doctrine : a Jewish form of truth -- Paradox : fragments of a system -- Prophecy and messianism : rethinking history -- Revelation : problematic foundations -- Philology : poetically spoken -- History of religion : a paradigm -- Myth and mysticism : fundamental concepts -- Gnosticism, misunderstanding, and symbolism : more operative terms? -- History of messianism : continuity and rupture? -- Explosion and historical test : the essential plot -- Jewish modernity : a test of the present -- Conclusion: Authority and silence.
Note:
"Originally published in German as Gershom Scholem by Wilhelm Fink Verlag."
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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