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Heidegger and Kabbalah : hidden gnosis and the path of poiesis

Title: Heidegger and Kabbalah : hidden gnosis and the path of poiesis / Elliot R. Wolfson.
Author: Wolfson, Elliot R.
Publication: Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, [2019]

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Description

453 pages; 27 cm.

Summary

"While many scholars have noted Martin Heidegger's indebtedness to Christian mystical sources, as well as his affinity with Taoism and Buddhism, Elliot R. Wolfson expands connections between Heidegger's thought and kabbalistic material. By arguing that the Jewish esoteric tradition impacted Heidegger, Wolfson presents an alternative way of understanding the history of Western philosophy. Wolfson's comparison between Heidegger and kabbalah sheds light on key concepts such as hermeneutics, temporality, language, and being and nothingness, while yielding surprising reflections on their common philosophical ground. Given Heidegger's involvement with National Socialism and his use of antisemitic language, these innovative readings are all the more remarkable for their juxtaposition of incongruent fields of discourse. Wolfson's entanglement with Heidegger and kabbalah not only enhances understandings of both but, more profoundly, serves as an ethical corrective to their respective ethnocentrism and essentialism. Wolfson masterfully illustrates the redemptive capacity of thought to illuminate common ground in seemingly disparate philosophical traditions"--back cover.

Series Statement

New Jewish philosophy and thought

Uniform Title

New Jewish philosophy and thought.

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-486) and index.

Contents

Belonging together of the foreign -- Hermeneutic circularity: tradition as genuine repetition of futural past -- Inceptual thinking and nonsystematic atonality -- Heidegger's Seyn/Nichts and Kabbalistic Ein Sof -- Imum, Lichtung, and bestowing refusal -- Autogenesis, nihilating leap, and otherness of the not-other -- Temporalizing and granting time-space -- Disclosive language: poiesis and apophatic occlusion of occlusion -- Ethnolinguistic enrootedness and invocation of historical destiny.

Call Number

JFF 19-2645

ISBN

9780253042569
0253042569
9780253042576
0253042577
9780253042606 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019013600
40029483491

OCLC

1053865411

Author

Wolfson, Elliot R., author.

Title

Heidegger and Kabbalah : hidden gnosis and the path of poiesis / Elliot R. Wolfson.

Publisher

Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New Jewish philosophy and thought

New Jewish philosophy and thought.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-486) and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Wolfson, Elliot R., author. Heidegger and Kabbalah. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2019. 9780253042606 (DLC) 2019980138

Other Standard Identifier

40029483491

Research Call Number

JFF 19-2645

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