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Primacies
Experience, Expression, and the Jewish Imagination
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Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2025
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A powerful exploration of how literature expresses and transforms our earliest preverbal experiences.
Primacies begins with the assertion that our earliest preverbal experiences are accompanied by a primary language—a universal expression of tears, cries, and laughter offered long before we learn our distinctive, ordinary languages. For Michael Fishbane, these “primacies” release the raw feelings of our existential condition and catalyze our most powerful literary expressions of sorrow, joy, and fulfillment.
In this book, Fishbane explores how ancient, medieval, and modern literature and poetry express and transform these primal sensations. Building on his theological project begun in Sacred Attunement and Fragile Finitude, Fishbane offers here a radically new lived hermeneutics that seeks to do nothing less than redefine the relationship between experience and language.
Primacies begins with the assertion that our earliest preverbal experiences are accompanied by a primary language—a universal expression of tears, cries, and laughter offered long before we learn our distinctive, ordinary languages. For Michael Fishbane, these “primacies” release the raw feelings of our existential condition and catalyze our most powerful literary expressions of sorrow, joy, and fulfillment.
In this book, Fishbane explores how ancient, medieval, and modern literature and poetry express and transform these primal sensations. Building on his theological project begun in Sacred Attunement and Fragile Finitude, Fishbane offers here a radically new lived hermeneutics that seeks to do nothing less than redefine the relationship between experience and language.
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“At the threshold of speech, Fishbane traces the primacies of experience—those silent stirrings that give rise to expression before words appear. Through a luminous engagement with diverse Jewish literary genres, he explores how the Jewish imagination is rooted in these preverbal depths. In an age of linguistic saturation and spiritual distraction, this book offers a contemplative return to the spaces between feeling and form, self and language—an invitation to dwell with the mysteries that underlie expression and animate our encounters with the world, texts, others, and ourselves.”
— Elie Holzer, Bar-Ilan University“Fishbane’s Primacies is an extraordinary meditation on how meaning emerges through a dynamic encounter with primordial elements—at once foundational and abyssal. Interweaving philosophy, hermeneutics, and a masterful curation and interpretation of Jewish sources from antiquity to the present, Fishbane offers profound insights into cultural renewal and human creativity. With poetic clarity, he guides readers through the perpetual human task of forging sense amid life’s depths and upheavals, revealing vital pathways for individual and communal regeneration.”
— Omer Michaelis, Tel Aviv UniversityFachgebiete
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - Part I
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1. Lamentation and Loss: The Poetics of Anguish
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2. Making "Sense" of Things : Searching High and Low
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3. Correlations and the Imaginal Between
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4. The World, Numina, and the Challenge of Theology
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5. The Inner Point: Spiritual Consciousness and Attentive Regard
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6. Tears and Testimony : A Literary Meditation
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7. Poetic Longing, Mysticism, and the Ontology of Language
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8. "The Between": Spaces of Meeting, Language, and the Abyss
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9. Alone-Together: Contemplation and Community as Intersecting Values
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10. Spiritual Hermeneutics and Appropriation: The Ḥasidic Sermon
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Conclusion: Forms of Presence
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Acknowledgments
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Index
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eBook veröffentlicht am:
20. August 2025
eBook ISBN:
9780226842127
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eBook ISBN:
9780226842127
Schlagwörter für dieses Buch
primary emotions; primary experience; literary phenomenology; Jewish literature; Jewish theology; cultural pedagogy; testimony; lament; Hasidic homily; religious hermeneutics
Zielgruppe(n) für dieses Buch
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
