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OverviewThere emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a new Jewish elite, notes Moshe Idel, no longer made up of prophets, priests, kings, or rabbis but of intellectuals and academicians working in secular universities or writing for an audience not defined by any one set of religious beliefs. In Old Worlds, New Mirrors Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig, Arnaldo Momigliano and Paul Celan, Abraham Heschel and George Steiner to reflect on their relationships to Judaism in a cosmopolitan, mostly European, context. Idel-himself one of the world's most eminent scholars of Jewish mysticism-focuses in particular on the mystical aspects of his subjects' writings. Avoiding all attempts to discern anything like a single ""essence of Judaism"" in their works, he nevertheless maintains a sustained effort to illumine especially the Kabbalistic and Hasidic strains of thought these figures would have derived from earlier Jewish sources. Looming large throughout is Gershom Scholem, the thinker who played such a crucial role in establishing the study of Kabbalah as a modern academic discipline and whose influence pervades Idel's own work; indeed, the author observes, much of the book may be seen as a mirror held up to reflect on the broader reception of Scholem's thought. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Moshe IdelPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780812222104ISBN 10: 0812222105 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 08 March 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Preface Introduction I. INTELLECTUAL CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF JUDAISM 1. Arnaldo Momigliano and Gershom Scholem on Jewish History and Tradition 2. Eric Voegelin's Israel and Revelation 3. George Steiner: A Prophet of Abstraction II. SCHOLEM'S CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF KABBALAH 4. The Function of Symbols in Gershom Scholem 5. Hieroglyphs, Mysteries, Keys: Scholem Between Molitor and Kafka 6. Subversive Catalysts: Gnosticism and Messianism in Scholem's View of Jewish Mysticism III. KABBALAH IN SOME TWENTIETH-CENTURY THINKERS 7. Franz Rosenzweig and Kabbalah 8. Abraham Abulafia, Gershom Scholem, and Walter Benjamin on Language 9. Jacques Derrida and Kabbalistic Sources 10. Paul Celan's ""Psalm"": A Revelation Toward Naught IV. UNDERSTANDING HASIDISM 11. Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem on Hasidism 12. Abraham Heschel on Mysticism and Hasidism 13. White Letters: From R. Levi Isaac of Berdichev to Postmodern Hermeneutics List of Abbreviations and Sources Notes Index"ReviewsQuesting for my rabbi I have gone from Buber through Scholem to Idel. I abide with Moshe Idel. He is not only a scholar of Scholem's magnitude but a guide for the perplexed like myself. I believe he will yet show us the way to the authentic Jewish culture still available to us in this waning time. -Harold Bloom Questing for my rabbi I have gone from Buber through Scholem to Idel. I abide with Moshe Idel. He is not only a scholar of Scholem's magnitude but a guide for the perplexed like myself. I believe he will yet show us the way to the authentic Jewish culture still available to us in this waning time. -Harold Bloom A brilliant and often illuminating exposition and critique of the role that Jewish mysticism has played in much of twentieth-century Western thought. Idel uncovers the many ways in which external sources, rather than traditional texts and practices, have informed accounts of Jewish mysticism. -Jewish Review of Books Author InformationMoshe Idel is Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Senior Researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He is the winner of many awards and prizes, including the EMET Prize, given by the Prime Minister of Israel; the Israel Prize for Jewish Thought; the Gershom Scholem Prize for research in Kabbalah, given by the Israeli Academy for Sciences and Humanities; and the National Jewish Book Award. Among his many books are Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic, Absorbing Perfections: Kabbalah and Interpretation, and Kabbalah and Eros. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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