Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism / Daniel Reiser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reiser, Daniel, 1976- author.

Series:

Studia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; Bd. 101.

Studia Judaica ; 101

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imagery (Psychology)--Methodology--History--20th century.

Imagery (Psychology).

Imagination (Philosophy)--History--20th century.

Imagination (Philosophy).

Visualization--Technique--History--20th century.

Visualization.

Mysticism--Judaism--History--20th century.

Mysticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (462 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Cherub-Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book analyzes and describes the development and aspects of imagery techniques, a primary mode of mystical experience, in twentieth century Jewish mysticism. These techniques, in contrast to linguistic techniques in medieval Kabbalah and in contrast to early Hasidism, have all the characteristics of a full screenplay, a long and complicated plot woven together from many scenes, a kind of a feature film. Research on this development and nature of the imagery experience is carried out through comparison to similar developments in philosophy and psychology and is fruitfully contextualized within broader trends of western and eastern mysticism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Translator's Note

Contents

Introduction

Section I: Imaginative Models

Chapter One Models of Imagination

Section II: Parameters for Mystical Praxis

Chapter Two Empowerment

Chapter Three Prophecy, Ecstasy, and Mysticism

Section III: Imagery Techniques

Chapter Four Imagination as an Empowering Factor in R. Kalonymous Kalman Shapira's Thought

Chapter Five Imagination as a Prophetic Factor: The Yearning for Prophecy in the Twentieth Century

Chapter Six A War of Imaginations: Imagery Techniques in R. Menaḥem Ekstein's Teachings

Chapter Seven War of the "Senses:" Imagination in the Musar Movement

Section IV: Adventures of Ideas: West and East

Introduction: Similar Thought Patterns

Chapter Eight "My Heart is in the East and I am at the Ends of the West": Imagery Techniques in Light of the West

Chapter Nine "A Voice Calls from the East:" Imagery Techniques in Light of the East

Afterword

Bibliography

Index of Persons

Subject Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jul 2018)

ISBN:

9783110534085

3110534088

9783110535884

3110535882

OCLC:

1046616912