Elliot R. Wolfson: Poetic Thinking

Language: English

Published by Brill, Leiden, 2015

9004291040 / 9789004291041

Series: Book 5 of 21 - Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers

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Octavo. xv, 254pp. Selected bibliography. Black over light blue boards, photo of Wolfson on front cover. A fine, as new copy. Elliot R. Wolfson is Professor of Religious Studies and the Marsha and Jay Glazer Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A scholar of Jewish mysticism and philosophy, he uses the textual sources of Judaism to examine universal philosophical topics such as the function and processes of the imagination, the paradoxes of temporality, and the mystery of poetic language. Working at the intersection of disciplines and refusing to reduce texts to their simple historical contexts, Wolfson puts texts spanning diverse temporal, cultural, and religious periods in creative counterpoint. His sensitivity to language reveals its fragility as it simultaneously points to the uncertainty of meaning. The result is a creative reading of both Judaism and philosophy that informs and is informed by poetic sensibility and philosophical hermeneutics. (Publisher) Contents: Elliot R. Wolfson : an intellectual portrait / Aaron W. Hughes -- Occultation of the feminine and the body of secrecy in medieval Kabbalah / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Iconicity of the text : reification of Torah and the idolatrous impulse of Zoharic Kabbalah / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Iconic visualization and the imaginal body of God : the role of intention in the rabbinic conception of prayer / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Not yet now : speaking of the end and the end of speaking / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Interview with Elliot R. Wolfson / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes. (OCLC) Brill's "Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers," Volume11. …

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Elliot R. Wolfson: Poetic Thinking
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Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava and Aaron W Hughes (editors)
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Brill, Leiden
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2015
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Hardcover
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English
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Book 5 of 21: Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers
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