Freedom of lights : Edmond Jabès and Jewish philosophy of modernity / Przemyslaw Tacik ; translated by Dr. Patrycja Poniatowska.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tacik, Przemyslaw, 1985- author.

Contributor:

Poniatowska, Patrycja, translator.

Series:

Studies in Jewish history and memory ; Volume 12.

Studies in Jewish history and memory ; Volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jabès, Edmond.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 pages).

Other Title:

Freedom of Lights

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2019]

Summary:

Edmond Jabès was one of the most intriguing Jewish thinkers of the 20th century--a poet for the public and a Kabbalist for those who read his work more closely. This book turns his writings into a ground-breaking philosophical achievement: thinking which is manifestly indebted to the Kabbalah, but in the post-religious and post-Shoah world. Loss, exile, negativity, God's absence, writing and Jewishness are the main signposts of the negative ontology which this book offers as an interpretation of Jabès' work. On the basis of it, the book enquiries into the nature of the miraculous encounter between Judaism and philosophy which occurred in the 20th century. Modernity means that philosophical Judaism is necessarily a re-constructed tradition: not a source, but a field played with by modern forces.

Contents:

Jewish philosophy of modernity

Edmond Jabes: life and writing

Tzimtzum: Jabes and Luria

Negative ontology: the vocable; god, nothing and the name

Messianism of writing

The concept of the book

Judaism and writing

The shoah and anti

semitism

Jabes' ethics: repetition, resemblance and hospitality

Theology of the point: Jabes as a modern Kabbalist.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.