Venturing beyond : law and morality in Kabbalistic mysticism
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Venturing beyond : law and morality in Kabbalistic mysticism
Oxford University Press, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-364) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Are mysticism and morality compatible or at odds with one another? If mystical experience embraces a form of non-dual consciousness, then in such a state of mind, the regulative dichotomy so basic to ethical discretion would seemingly be transcended and the very foundation for ethical decisions undermined. Venturing Beyond - Law and Morality in Kabbalistic Mysticism is an investigation of the relationship of the mystical and moral as it is expressed in the
particular tradition of Jewish mysticism known as the Kabbalah. The particular themes discussed include the denigration of the non-Jew as the ontic other in kabbalistic anthropology and the eschatological crossing of that boundary anticipated in the instituition of religious conversion; the overcoming of the
distinction between good and evil in the mystical experience of the underlying unity of all things; divine suffering and the ideal of spiritual poverty as the foundation for transmoral ethics and hypernomian lawfulness.
Table of Contents
- Introduction Morality and Mysticism: Parallel or Intersecting Lines?
- 1. Ontology, Alterity, and the Anthropological Other
- 2. Othering the Other: Eschatological Effacing of Ontological Boundaries
- 3. Beyond Good and Evil: Hypernomian Transmorality and Indeterminacy of the Limit
- 4. Suffering, Humility, and Transgressive Piety
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