Tsimtsum and Modernity

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Tsimtsum and Modernity

Lurianic Heritage in Modern Philosophy and Theology

Edited by: Agata Bielik-Robson and Daniel H. Weiss

Volume 16 in the series Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110684353

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About this book

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 Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface Tsimtsum in Modernity: A Case of Dramatic Dissemination Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction An Unhistorical History of Tsimtsum: A Break with Neoplatonism? Agata Bielik-Robson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: Tsimtsum and the Jewish Tradition
The Midrashic Background of the Doctrine of Divine Contraction: Against Gershom Scholem on Tsimtsum Paul Franks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Tsimtsum between the Bible and Philosophy: Levinas, Luria, and Genesis 1 Daniel H. Weiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Hasidic Thought and Tsimtsum’s Linguistic Turn Reuven Leigh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Part 2: Tsimtsum and Modern Philosophy
Tsimtsum and the Root of Finitude Kenneth Seeskin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Unfolding the Enfolded: Schelling and Lurianic Kabbalah Alex S. Ozar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Tsimtsum, Lichtung, and the Leap of Bestowing Refusal: Kabbalistic and Heideggerian Metaontology in Dialogue Elliot R. Wolfson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Taking Space Seriously: Tehiru, Khora and the Freudian Void Adam Lipszyc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
The Retreat of the Poet in Walter Benjamin’s “Two Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin” Eli Friedlander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
“The Kabbalistic Problem is not Specifically Theological”: Franz Rosenzweig on Tsimtsum Benjamin Pollock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Tsimtsum as Eclipse: Anthropomorphism and Transcendence in Buber and Horkheimer Asaf Angermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Part 3: Tsimtsum after the Holocaust
Tsimtsum as the Traumnabel of Modern Jewish Philosophy: Between History and Revelation Przemysław Tacik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Tsimtsum and Political Theology in the Thought of Gershom Scholem Martin Kavka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
‘Abyss Calls Unto Abyss’: Tsimtsum and Kenosis in the Rupture of God-forsakenness Simon D. Podmore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Traces of Tsimtsum: Berkovits, Fackenheim, Levinas Michael L. Morgan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Transcendental Tsimtsum: Levinas’s mythology of meaning Michael Fagenblat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
Derrida Denudata: Tsimtsum and the Derridean Metaphysics of Non-Presence Agata Bielik-Robson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Tsimtsum: Media and Arts Christoph Schulte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
Notes on the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Researchers and students of philosophy, theology, and history; libraries.
Pages
- Front matter: 23
- Main content: 447
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 11
Keywords: Tsimtsum; modernity; Jewish philosophy; Kabbalah

eBook

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110684353

Hardcover

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110684285