ISBN:
9781503633186
Language:
English
Pages:
495 Seiten
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23,5 cm
Year of publication:
2023
Series Statement:
Stanford studies in Jewish mysticism
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wolfson, Elliot R Philosophical pathos of Susan Taubes
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wolfson, Elliot R., 1956 - The philosophical pathos of Susan Taubes
DDC:
813/.54
Keywords:
Taubes, Susan Philosophy
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Jewish philosophy 20th century
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Religion Philosophy
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Taubes, Susan 1928-1969
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Philosophie
Abstract:
"The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes offers a detailed analysis of an extraordinary figure in the twentieth-century history of Jewish thought, Western philosophy, and the study of religion. Drawing on close readings of Susan Taubes' writings, including her correspondence with her husband Jacob Taubes, scholarly essays, literary compositions, and poems, Elliot R. Wolfson plumbs the depths of a tragic worldview hovering between the poles of nihilism and hope. Susan Taubes presciently explored the hypernomian status of Jewish ritual and belief after the Holocaust, as well as the theopolitical challenges of Zionism and the dangers of ethnonationalism. She engaged with numerous other thinkers, analyzing the antitheological theology and gnostic repercussions of Heideggerian thought; and the mystical atheism and apophaticism of tragedy in Simone Weil. And she understood poetry as the means to face the faceless and to confront the silence of death in the temporal overcoming of time through time. Wolfson delves into the abyss that molded Susan Taubes's mytheological thinking, making a powerful case for the relevance of her work to the study of philosophy and religion today"
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : memory and heeding the murmuring of the Israelites -- Ghosts of Judaism and the serpent devouring its own tale -- Zionism and the sacramental danger of nationalism -- Gnosis and the covert theology of antitheology : Heidegger, apocalypticism, and Gnosticism -- Tragedy, mystical atheism, and the apophaticism of Simone Weil -- Facing the faceless : poetic truth, temporal oblivion, and the silence of death.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
