Unfolding the Enfolded: Schelling and Lurianic Kabbalah

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Introduction An Unhistorical History of Tsimtsum: A Break with Neoplatonism? 1
5. Part 1: Tsimtsum and the Jewish Tradition
6. The Midrashic Background of the Doctrine of Divine Contraction: Against Gershom Scholem on Tsimtsum 39
7. Tsimtsum between the Bible and Philosophy: Levinas, Luria, and Genesis 1 61
8. Hasidic Thought and Tsimtsum’s Linguistic Turn 83
9. Part 2: Tsimtsum and Modern Philosophy
10. Tsimtsum and the Root of Finitude 107
11. Unfolding the Enfolded: Schelling and Lurianic Kabbalah 119
12. Tsimtsum, Lichtung, and the Leap of Bestowing Refusal: Kabbalistic and Heideggerian Metaontology in Dialogue 141
13. Taking Space Seriously: Tehiru, Khora and the Freudian Void 191
14. The Retreat of the Poet in Walter Benjamin’s “Two Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin” 207
15. “The Kabbalistic Problem is not Specifically Theological”: Franz Rosenzweig on Tsimtsum 219
16. Tsimtsum as Eclipse: Anthropomorphism and Transcendence in Buber and Horkheimer 247
17. Part 3: Tsimtsum after the Holocaust
18. Tsimtsum as the Traumnabel of Modern Jewish Philosophy: Between History and Revelation 269
19. Tsimtsum and Political Theology in the Thought of Gershom Scholem 293
20. ‘Abyss Calls Unto Abyss’: Tsimtsum and Kenosis in the Rupture of God-forsakenness 311
21. Traces of Tsimtsum: Berkovits, Fackenheim, Levinas 339
22. Transcendental Tsimtsum: Levinas’s mythology of meaning 361
23. Derrida Denudata: Tsimtsum and the Derridean Metaphysics of Non-Presence 389
24. Tsimtsum: Media and Arts 419
25. Notes on the Contributors 435
26. Index 439