Heidegger and Kabbalah : Hidden Gnosis and the Path of Poiēsis / Elliot R. Wolfson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfson, Elliot R., author.

Series:

New Jewish philosophy and thought.

New Jewish Philosophy and Thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cabala.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (454 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Heidegger and Kabbalah

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, 2019.

Summary:

While many scholars have noted Martin Heidegger's indebtedness to Christian mystical sources, as well as his affinity with Taoism and Buddhism, Elliot R. Wolfson expands connections between Heidegger's thought and kabbalistic material. By arguing that the Jewish esoteric tradition impacted Heidegger, Wolfson presents an alternative way of understanding the history of Western philosophy.

Contents:

Belonging together of the foreign

Hermeneutic circularity: tradition as genuine repetition of futural past

Inceptual thinking and nonsystematic atonality

Heidegger's Seyn/Nichts and Kabbalistic Ein Sof

Simsum, Lichtung, and bestowing refusal

Autogenesis, nihilating leap, and otherness of the not-other

Temporalizing and granting time-space

Disclosive language: poiesis and apophatic occlusion of occlusion

Ethnolinguistic enrootedness and invocation of historical destiny.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253042606

0253042607

9780253042583

0253042585