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Tsimtsum and Modernity
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© 2020 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston

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
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