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Elliot R. Wolfson
In this erudite new work, Elliot R. Wolfson explores philosophical gnosis in the writings of Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose, and Edith Wyschogrod. The juxtaposition of these three extraordinary, albeit relatively…
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Elliot R. Wolfson is Professor of Religious Studies and the Marsha and Jay Glazer Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Renowned as one of the world’s most astute interpreters of Kabbalistic texts, Elliot Wolfson offers a precise and original presentation of Kabbalah.
This book deals with the issue of gender in Jewish mysticism showing the thematic correlation of eroticism and esotericism that is central to the kabbalah.
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This book explores the fundamental issues in Jewish mysticism and provides a taxonomy of the deep structures of thought that emerge from the texts.
This study - a blend of philosophy, poetry, and philology - draws on theories of sexuality, phenomenology, comparative religion, philological writings , Russian formalism, Wittgenstein, Rosenzweig, William Blake, and the…
Explores the complex gender symbolism that permeates Kabbalistic literature. Focusing on the nexus of asceticism and eroticism, the author seeks to define the role of symbolic and poetically charged language…
Explores the co-dependency of monotheism and idolatry by examining the thought of several prominent twentieth-century Jewish philosophers - Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, and Levinas.
An exploration of the wakeful character of the dream and the dreamful character of wakefulness.
Are mysticism and morality compatible or at odds with one another? This book offers an investigation of the relationship of the mystical and moral as it is expressed in the…
While many scholars have noted Martin Heidegger’s indebtedness to Christian mystical sources, Wolfson expands connections between Heidegger’s thought and kabbalistic material. By arguing that the Jewish esoteric tradition impacted Heidegger…
These essays and poems by a leading scholar of Jewish mysticism explore the connections between sexuality, divinity, and textuality, working with topics such as the gender of the Godhead, Apocalypse…
The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes offers a detailed analysis of an extraordinary figure in the twentieth-century history of Jewish thought, Western philosophy, and the study of religion. Drawing on…
Menahem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994) was the seventh and seemingly last Rebbe of the Habad-Lubavitch dynasty. Marked by conflicting tendencies, the thinker was a radical messianic visionary who promoted a conservative…
Elliot R. Wolfson intervenes in the debate over Martin Heidegger and Nazism from a unique perspective, as a scholar of Jewish mysticism and philosophy who has been profoundly influenced by…
Offering a treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the visual nature of religious experience in Jewish spirituality from antiquity through…
In a diverse and innovative selection of essays by cutting-edge theologians and philosophers, this text examines one of the most primitive but challenging questions to define human experience - why…
A critical introduction to the American philosopher D. G. Leahy (1937-2014), whose oeuvre sets forth a fundamental thinking in which change itself is revealed to be the very essence of…
Elliot R Wolfson
The aphorisms and poetry presented in this book seeking and suffering for truth are a journey blending aesthetics and sophisticated philosophy through concise words. These words guide the reader inwards…
Here is a fascinating and unusual addition to the acclaimed Classics of Western Spirituality ™series. Abraham Miguel Cardozo (1627-1706) was born to a Marrano family in Spain and raised as…
Presents a collection of ninety-two poems spanning several decades. This work contains poems that reflect interests in philosophy, the history of religions, and, in particular, the mystical dimensions of Judaism…
Reviewer Other Elliot R Wolfson (Nyu/The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies)
Thirteen leading scholars offer a fresh look at four key topics in medieval Jewish studies: the history of Jewish communities in Western Christendom, Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe, medieval Jewish…
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The work of Elliot R. Wolfson has profoundly influenced the fields of Jewish studies as well as philosophy and religion more broadly. The contributors to this volume have learned from…
This volume assesses the role of Jews, as both agents and figures, in the development of critical and literary theory in the twentieth century and beyond. Its topics range from…
Identifies philosophic questions that are important to Jewish thought. This book proposes various models for the study of Jewish philosophy that embrace wider intellectual arenas - including linguistics, poetics, aesthetics…
A collection of word and image studies set within the perspective of the cognitive study of interpretation. The editor posits that pictures and texts arise from the biological as well…
