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OverviewThis book reconciles the conflicts between these two seemingly diverse traditions. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alessandro Guetta , Helena KahanPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.481kg ISBN: 9780791475751ISBN 10: 0791475751 Pages: 246 Publication Date: 05 March 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback 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"INTRODUCTION A FEW BIOGRAPHICAL POINTERS PART I: PHILOSOPHY AND KABBALAH KABBALAH AND PROGRESS THEOLOGY AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE UNCONSCIOUS THE UNIVERSAL RELATIONSHIP CONDITIONED PROGRESS HISTORY AND TRUTH ""PANTHEISM: THE GREAT ERROR OF OUR AGE"" MODERATE IDEALISM: A TENDENCY TOWARD UNION DISTINCTIONS PRESERVED The Philosophical Context Spinoza's Error: Downwards Union Christianity's error: Upwards Union The Metaphysical Flaws of Christian Morality The Historical Jesus RECONCILIATION: IMMANENTIST MONOTHEISM The Triumph of the Occident and Thoughts on Difference Plurality within Unity HIDDEN ANTHROPOMORPHISM: FEUERBACH'S REASONS FROM LAMENTATIONS OF EXILE TO A SENSE OF MISSION PHILOLOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY Hebrew: A Perfect Language? Hebrew: A Dead Language? The Possibility of Modern Hebraic Poetry Vico and the Zohar THE INEVITABLE CHOICES OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BIBLICAL COMMENTARY An Eloquent Incipit Condemnation from the Oriental Rabbis Israel Moshe Hazan: Fundamentalism and Moderation ""As though hanging in air"" The Omissions of Em La-Miqra: The Conjunction of Kabbalah and Modernity The Positive Hermeneutics Comparitivism Concordism and Tradition Erudition and Philosophy THE NOTES ON THE ZOHAR PART II: TRADITION, ORALITY, AND TEXT ISSUES IN PLAY TRADITION AND TEXT: BETWEEN ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTICISM TRADITION AND TEXTS FOR A SCIENCE OF JUDAISM IN DEFENSE OF TRADITION Definitions THE WRITTEN AND THE SPOKEN WORD POLEMICAL CONTEXT Tradition versus Subjectivity Criticism of Modernity and a New Apologia The Danger of Individualism Jewish Reformers and Traditionalists Defense of Kabbalah Polemic in Italian Judaism: S. D. Luzzatto's Dialogues on the Kabbalah The Inadequacy of Literal Interpretation Kabbalah and Philology Reason and Divine Tradition Science, Method, and Transmission Religion in the Feminine Declension PART III: STYLE AS WITNESS The Orient, ""To Orient Oneself"" Solitude: ""I live in the Boeotia of Judaism"" The Need to Speak The Imaginary Library From Orient to Occident NOTES INDEX"Reviews"""...Guetta's work, especially now that it is available in an English translation, should go a long way toward bringing Benamozegh's thought into contemporary dialogue."" - AJS Review ""Guetta carefully contextualizes the thinking of this last great Kabbalist on Italian soil against the background of earlier and contemporary Italian Jewish thought and general philosophical and theological trends throughout Europe. The result is a marvelous reconstruction of a highly original Jewish thinker attempting to carve a place for Jewish tradition within European culture through his innovative interpretations of Kabbalistic sapience and its relevance for the modern world."" - David B. Ruderman, Ella Darivoff Director, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania ""We should all be grateful for Alessandro Guetta's important study that places the little-known Jewish sage Benamozegh at the forefront of modern Kabbalists."" - David Appelbaum, author of Jacques Derrida's Ghost: A Conjuration" ...Guetta's work, especially now that it is available in an English translation, should go a long way toward bringing Benamozegh's thought into contemporary dialogue. - AJS Review Guetta carefully contextualizes the thinking of this last great Kabbalist on Italian soil against the background of earlier and contemporary Italian Jewish thought and general philosophical and theological trends throughout Europe. The result is a marvelous reconstruction of a highly original Jewish thinker attempting to carve a place for Jewish tradition within European culture through his innovative interpretations of Kabbalistic sapience and its relevance for the modern world. - David B. Ruderman, Ella Darivoff Director, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania We should all be grateful for Alessandro Guetta's important study that places the little-known Jewish sage Benamozegh at the forefront of modern Kabbalists. - David Appelbaum, author of Jacques Derrida's Ghost: A Conjuration Author InformationAlessandro Guetta is Professor of Jewish Thought at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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