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Tsimtsum and Modernity

Lurianic Heritage in Modern Philosophy and Theology
  • Edited by: Agata Bielik-Robson and Daniel H. Weiss
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2021
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This volume is the first-ever collection of essays devoted to the Lurianic concept of tsimtsum. It contains eighteen studies in philosophy, theology, and intellectual history, which demonstrate the historical development of this notion and its evolving meaning: from the Hebrew Bible and the classical midrashic collections, through Kabbalah, Isaac Luria himself and his disciples, up to modernity (ranging from Spinoza, Böhme, Leibniz, Newton, Schelling, and Hegel to Scholem, Rosenzweig, Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, Levinas, Jonas, Moltmann, and Derrida).

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Agata Bielik-Robson, University of Nottingham, UK; Daniel H. Weiss, University of Cambridge, UK.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Contents

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    Preface

    VII
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    Introduction An Unhistorical History of Tsimtsum: A Break with Neoplatonism?

    1
    Agata Bielik-Robson
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  • Part 1: Tsimtsum and the Jewish Tradition
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    The Midrashic Background of the Doctrine of Divine Contraction: Against Gershom Scholem on Tsimtsum

    39
    Paul Franks
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    Tsimtsum between the Bible and Philosophy: Levinas, Luria, and Genesis 1

    61
    Daniel H. Weiss
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    Hasidic Thought and Tsimtsum’s Linguistic Turn

    83
    Reuven Leigh
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  • Part 2: Tsimtsum and Modern Philosophy
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    Tsimtsum and the Root of Finitude

    107
    Kenneth Seeskin
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    Unfolding the Enfolded: Schelling and Lurianic Kabbalah

    119
    Alex S. Ozar
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    Tsimtsum, Lichtung, and the Leap of Bestowing Refusal: Kabbalistic and Heideggerian Metaontology in Dialogue

    141
    Elliot R. Wolfson
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    Taking Space Seriously: Tehiru, Khora and the Freudian Void

    191
    Adam Lipszyc
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    The Retreat of the Poet in Walter Benjamin’s “Two Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin”

    207
    Eli Friedlander
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    “The Kabbalistic Problem is not Specifically Theological”: Franz Rosenzweig on Tsimtsum

    219
    Benjamin Pollock
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    Tsimtsum as Eclipse: Anthropomorphism and Transcendence in Buber and Horkheimer

    247
    Asaf Angermann
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  • Part 3: Tsimtsum after the Holocaust
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    Tsimtsum as the Traumnabel of Modern Jewish Philosophy: Between History and Revelation

    269
    Przemysław Tacik
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    Tsimtsum and Political Theology in the Thought of Gershom Scholem

    293
    Martin Kavka
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    ‘Abyss Calls Unto Abyss’: Tsimtsum and Kenosis in the Rupture of God-forsakenness

    311
    Simon D. Podmore
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    Traces of Tsimtsum: Berkovits, Fackenheim, Levinas

    339
    Michael L. Morgan
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    Transcendental Tsimtsum: Levinas’s mythology of meaning

    361
    Michael Fagenblat
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    Derrida Denudata: Tsimtsum and the Derridean Metaphysics of Non-Presence

    389
    Agata Bielik-Robson
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    Tsimtsum: Media and Arts

    419
    Christoph Schulte
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    Notes on the Contributors

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    Index

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eBook published on:
December 7, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9783110684353
Hardcover published on:
December 7, 2020
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110684285
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
23
Main content:
447
Illustrations:
11
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110684353
eBook ISBN: 9783110684353
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110684285
Keywords for this book
Tsimtsum; modernity; Jewish philosophy; Kabbalah
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Researchers and students of philosophy, theology, and history; libraries.
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