Apophasis and Envisioning the Invisible : Unveiling Veils of Infinity / Elliot R. Wolfson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfson, Elliot R., author.

Series:

Aries Book Series ; 42.

Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Aries Book Series ; 42

Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish Mysticism.

Jews--Study and teaching.

Jews.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (690 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Unveiling Veils of Infinity

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this monograph, two of the most complicated theoretical topics confronting the scholar of mysticism (apophasis and infinity) are tackled. Writing about apophasis presents a unique dilemma as the term itself connotes the inability of language to name the namelessness of ultimate reality. Yet, the apophatic is a gesture of speaking-not, which entails saying the unsayable, as opposed to not speaking, which is the reticence appropriate to silence. The exploration of infinity presents an equally daunting demand as the intellect embarking on this path is summoned to circumscribe the uncircumscribable. Just as communicating the incommunicable is an endless enterprise of speaking the unspeakable, so mapping infinity is an unremitting pursuit of delimiting the limitless. The two subjects thus intersect at the vanishing point where the human mind reaches its limit by confronting the limitlessness that can be described only as indescribable.

Contents:

Introduction

1 Calculating Infinity at the Perimeter of Thought and Heeding Silence at the Edge of Language

1 Unified Fracture and the Singular Plural

2 Infinity and the Proximal Distance from Proximity

3 Speaking-Not, Agnosis, and Thinking beyond the Beyond Thinking

4 Tacitly Saying Nothing: Commingling of Apophasis and Kataphasis

5 Poiēsis and Speaking the Unspeakable

2 Apophasis and the Parabolic Garment of Truth: Moses Maimonides and Meister Eckhart

1 Maimonidean Via Negativa: Philosophical Mysticism and Seeing through the Veil

2 Seeing Nothing and the Nakedness of the Godhead in Meister Eckhart

3 Envisioning Invisibility: Polyontological Meontology and the One That Is Not One in Zoharic Kabbalah

1 From Luminal Darkness to Darkened Luminosity: Crossing the Threshold of Crossing

2 Dialetheic Identity of the Nonidentity of Darkness and Light

3 Meontological Polyontology of the One That Is Not One

4 Naming the Nameless and the Double Helix of Negation

5 A Lacanian Interlude: No Other of the Other

6 Heeding the Voice of Silence in the Silence of the Voice

7 Tetragrammaton without Letters: Language beyond Speech, Writing, and Contemplation

4 Metalogic of the Trace in Lurianic Kabbalah: Transcendent Immanence and Immanent Transcendence

1 Monistic Meontology and Disruption of Discontinuity

2 Trace of Infinity and Indifference of Difference

3 Vessel and Trace of Light: Othering the Otherness of the Not-Other

5 Imagining Nothing and the Snare of Metaphoricity: Abraham Miguel Cardoso’s Mystical Nominalism

1 Phallomorphic Gaze and the Metaphorization of the Male Androgyne

2 Gnosis, Reason, and Faith: Messianic Enlightenment and the Secret of Divinity

3 Parabolic Investiture of the Infinitivity beyond Being and Nonbeing

4 Bridging the Unbridgeable and the Metaphor of the Metaphorical

6 Malkhut de-Adam Qadmon and the Myth of Ṣimṣum: Engendering Alterity in the Theosophy of Neḥemiah Ḥiyya Ḥayyon

1 Mystery of Infinity and the Diffusion of Light Depleted of Light

2 Gendering Infinity: Ṣimṣum and the Capacity for Boundary in the Boundless

3 Apophasis and the Atheological Repudiation of Godliness

4 Positioning the Feminine in a World That Is Entirely Masculine

7 Dialetheic Concealing the Disclosure of Concealing: Apophatic Embodiment and the Essence of Infinitivity in Ḥabad

1 Unconcealing the Concealment and the Finitudinal Infinitivity

2 Concealing the Concealment of Concealment

3 Two Types of Contemplation: Universal and Particular

4 Negation of the Negated Negation

5 Hierarchical Inversion and Gender Transposition

6 Messianic New Light: Retrieval of the End in Expectation of the Beginning

8 Naming the Namelessness of the Name: Constricting Expansion and Timespace of Infinity in Solomon ben Ḥayyim Ḥaiqel Elyashiv

1 Infinity and the Eternality of Time beyond Temporality

2 Ein Sof and the Apophatic Divestiture of Ontotheological Discourse

3 Ṣimṣum and the Khoric Space between Literal and Figurative

4 Metaphoricity and the Rhetoric of Same Difference

5 Apokatastasis and the Apophatic Return to Malkhut de-Ein Sof

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-74436-3

9789004744363

OCLC:

1569121620

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004744363 DOI