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The father of Jewish mysticism : the writing of Gershom Scholem /
"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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés Alemán |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2022]
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| Collection: | New Jewish philosophy and thought.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.