ISBN:
9780812241303
Language:
English
Pages:
323 S.
Year of publication:
2009
Series Statement:
Jewish culture and contexts
DDC:
[22] 296.0922-Q--LOC
Keywords:
Scholem, Gershom
;
Jewish scholars
;
Mysticism Judaism
;
Cabala
;
Hasidism
;
Judaism 20th century
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Kabbala
;
Rezeption
;
Jüdische Philosophie
;
Geschichte 1910-2000
;
Scholem, Gershom 1897-1982
;
Kabbala
;
Chassidismus
Description / Table of Contents:
Intellectual conceptualizations of Judaism. Arnaldo Momigliano and Gershom Scholem on Jewish history and tradition -- Eric Voegelin's Israel and revelation -- George Steiner: a prophet of abstraction -- Scholem's conceptualizations of Kabbalah. The function of symbols in Gershom Scholem -- Hieroglyphs, mysteries, keys: Scholem between Molitor and Kafka -- Subversive catalysts: Gnosticism and Messianism in Scholem's view of Jewish mysticism -- Kabbalah in some twentieth-century thinkers. Franz Rosenzweig and Kabbalah -- Abraham Abulafia, Gershom Scholem, and Walter Benjamin on language -- Jacques Derrida and kabbalistic sources -- Paul Celan's "psalm": a revelation toward naught -- Understanding Hasidism. Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem on Hasidism -- Abraham Heschel on mysticism and Hasidism -- White Letters: from R. Levi Isaac of Berdichev to postmodern hermeneutics.
