ISBN:
9781433103049
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 338 S.
,
230 mm x 160 mm
Year of publication:
2009
Series Statement:
Studies in Judaism 3
Series Statement:
Studies in Judaism
DDC:
296.1/6
Keywords:
Cabala History
;
Mysticism Judaism
;
Postmodernism Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Judaism Doctrines
;
Kabbala
;
Postmoderne
;
Judentum
;
Mystik
;
Jüdische Theologie
;
Moderne
;
Kabbalistik
;
Esoterik
;
Postmoderne
Abstract:
Introduction -- Postmodernism and Jewish mysticism -- Derrida and Jewish mysticism -- Tzimtzum and différance -- The shevirah and deconstruction -- A-systematic theology -- The doctrine of coincidentia oppositorum in Jewish mysticism -- The Torah of the tree of life -- Beyond the bounds of language -- Creation ex nihilo and the impossible Messiah -- Kabbalah, forms of consciousness and the structure of language
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: a mysticism of ideas -- Postmodernism and Jewish mysticism -- Derrida and the kabbalah -- Tzimtzum and "differance" -- The shevirah and deconstruction -- A-systematic theology -- A rational mystical ascent: the coincidence of opposites in kabbalistic and Hasidic thought -- The Torah of the tree of life: kabbalistic reflections on the hermeneutics of infinity in Scholem, Idel, Dan, and Tishby -- Beyond the bounds of language -- Creation ex nihilo and the impossible Messiah -- Entering the gate: kabbalah, consciousness and the structure of language
Note:
Literaturverz. S. 315 - 322
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