The father of Jewish mysticism : the writing of Gershom Scholem /

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"The Father of Jewish Mysticism offers an incisive look at the early life and writings of Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), the father of modern Jewish mysticism and a major 20th-century Jewish intellectual thinker. Daniel Weidner offers the first full-length study, published in English, of Scholem...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Weidner, Daniel (Author)
Other Authors: Anderson, Sage (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]
Series:New Jewish philosophy and thought.
Subjects:
Scholem, Gershom, > 1897-1982.
Jewish scholars > Biography.
Mysticism > Judaism.
Judaism > Historiography.
Jews > Identity.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
Jewish scholars.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Intellectual history and writing : what it means to read Gershom Scholem
  • Part 1. Positioning speech : Scholem's political education. Revolt and romanticism : a first language
  • Confusion and polemics : taking a position
  • Asceticism and silence : gaining authority
  • Esoteric Zionism : politics and language
  • Victory's despair : reality and crisis
  • Looking back : rewriting the past
  • Part 2. Practicing theory : Scholem's early reading. Language and truth : first steps
  • Lamentations : thinking language
  • Tradition, teaching, doctrine : a Jewish form of truth
  • Paradox : fragments of a system
  • Prophecy and messianism : rethinking history
  • Revelation : problematic foundations
  • Philology : poetically spoken
  • Part 3. Producing history : Scholem's scholarship. History of religion : a paradigm
  • Myth and mysticism : fundamental concepts
  • Gnosticism, misunderstanding, and symbolism : more operative terms?
  • History of messianism : continuity and rupture?
  • Explosion and historical test : the essential plot
  • Jewish modernity : a test of the present
  • Conclusion: Authority and silence.

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