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Old Worlds, New Mirrors - On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought (Paperback, New)
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Old Worlds, New Mirrors - On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought (Paperback, New)
Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
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There emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a new
Jewish elite, notes Moshe Idel, no longer made up of prophets,
priests, kings, or rabbis but of intellectuals and academicians
working in secular universities or writing for an audience not
defined by any one set of religious beliefs. In Old Worlds, New
Mirrors Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter
Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig,
Arnaldo Momigliano and Paul Celan, Abraham Heschel and George
Steiner to reflect on their relationships to Judaism in a
cosmopolitan, mostly European, context. Idel—himself one of the
world's most eminent scholars of Jewish mysticism—focuses in
particular on the mystical aspects of his subjects' writings.
Avoiding all attempts to discern anything like a single "essence of
Judaism" in their works, he nevertheless maintains a sustained
effort to illumine especially the Kabbalistic and Hasidic strains
of thought these figures would have derived from earlier Jewish
sources. Looming large throughout is Gershom Scholem, the thinker
who played such a crucial role in establishing the study of
Kabbalah as a modern academic discipline and whose influence
pervades Idel's own work; indeed, the author observes, much of the
book may be seen as a mirror held up to reflect on the broader
reception of Scholem's thought.
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Imprint: |
University of PennsylvaniaPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Jewish Culture and Contexts |
Release date: |
March 2012 |
First published: |
2010 |
Authors: |
Moshe Idel
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
336 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8122-2210-4 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-8122-2210-5 |
Barcode: |
9780812222104 |
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