Elliot R. Wolfson : poetic thinking
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Elliot R. Wolfson : poetic thinking
（Library of contemporary Jewish philosophers, v. 11）
Brill, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-254)
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Elliot R. Wolfson is Professor of Religious Studies and the Marsha and Jay Glazer Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A scholar of Jewish mysticism and philosophy, he uses the textual sources of Judaism to examine universal philosophical topics such as the function and processes of the imagination, the paradoxes of temporality, and the mystery of poetic language. Working at the intersection of disciplines and refusing to reduce texts to their simple historical contexts, Wolfson puts texts spanning diverse temporal, cultural, and religious periods in creative counterpoint. His sensitivity to language reveals its fragility as it simultaneously points to the uncertainty of meaning. The result is a creative reading of both Judaism and philosophy that informs and is informed by poetic sensibility and philosophical hermeneutics.
Table of Contents
The Contributors
Editors' Introduction to Series
Elliot R. Wolfson: An Intellectual Portrait Aaron W. Hughes
Occultation of the Feminine and the Body of Secrecy in Medieval Kabbalah Elliot R. Wolfson
Iconicity of the Text: Reification of Torah and the Idolatrous Impulse of Zoharic Kabbalah Elliot R. Wolfson
Iconic Visualization and the Imaginal Body of God: The Role of Intention in the Rabbinic Conception of Prayer Elliot R. Wolfson
Not Yet Now: Speaking of the End and the End of Speaking Elliot R. Wolfson
Interview with Professor Elliot Wolfson Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes
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