Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity

Author:   Michael Fagenblat ,  Agata Bielik-Robson ,  Idit Dobbs-Weinstein ,  Michael Fagenblat
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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Pages:   374
Publication Date:   27 February 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Negative theology is the attempt to describe God by speaking in terms of what God is not. Historical affinities between Jewish modernity and negative theology indicate new directions for thematizing the modern Jewish experience. Questions such as, What are the limits of Jewish modernity in terms of negativity? Has this creative tradition exhausted itself? and How might Jewish thought go forward? anchor these original essays. Taken together they explore the roots and legacies of negative theology in Jewish thought, examine the viability and limits of theorizing the modern Jewish experience as negative theology, and offer a fresh perspective from which to approach Jewish intellectual history.

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Author:   Michael Fagenblat ,  Agata Bielik-Robson ,  Idit Dobbs-Weinstein ,  Michael Fagenblat
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.744kg
ISBN:  

9780253024725


ISBN 10:   0253024722
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   27 February 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Introduction. Delineations: Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity 1. The Limits of Negative Theology in Medieval Kabbalah and Jewish Philosophy Sandra Valabregue 2. ""No One Can See My Face and Live"" Kenneth Seeskin 3. What is Positive in Negative Theology? Lenn E. Goodman 4. Negative Theology as Illuminating and/or Therapeutic Falsehood Sam Lebens 5. ""My Aid Will Come From Nothingness"": The Practice of Negative Theology in Maggid Devarav Le-Ya'akov James Jacobson-Maisels 6. Secrecy, Apophasis, and Atheistic Faith in the Teachings of Rav Kook Elliot R. Wolfson 7. Two Types of Negative Theology; Or, What Does Negative Theology Negate? Shira Wolosky 8. Khoric Apophasis: Matter and Messianicity in Islamo-Judeo-Greek Neoplatonism Sarah Pessin 9. Negative Dialectics, sive secular Jewish theology: Adorno on the prohibition on graven images and imperative of historical critique Idit Dobbs-Weinstein 10. The passion of non-knowing true oneness: Derrida and Maimonides on God—and Jew, perhaps Michael Fagenblat 11. Jewish Negative Theology: A Phenomenological Perspective David Novak 12. Mysteries of the Promise: Negative Theology in Benjamin and Scholem Agata Bielik-Robson 13. Can Halakhah Survive Negative Theology? David Shatz, 14. The Stylus and the Almond: Negative Literary Theologies in Paul Celan Adam Lipszyc 15. ""Gods Change"": The Deconstruction of the Transcendent God and the Reconstruction of the Mythical Godhead in Yehuda Amichai's Open Closed Open Tzahi Weiss 16. The Politics of Negative Theology Martin Kavka"

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Focuses on a very interesting and important set of themes concerning negative theology, the unknowability of God, and their implications for Judaism. -Michael L. Morgan, author of Levinas's Ethical Politics


Focuses on a very interesting and important set of themes concerning negative theology, the unknowability of God, and their implications for Judaism. Michael L. Morgan, author of Levinas's Ethical Politics</p>


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Michael Fagenblat is Senior Lecturer at the Open University of Israel. He is the author of A Covenant of Creatures: Levinas's Philosophy of Judaism.

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