| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction: imagination and the prism of the inapparent -- 1. Via negativa and the imaginal configuring of God -- 2. Apophatic vision and overcoming the dialogical -- 3. Echo of the otherwise and the lure of theolatry -- 4. Secrecy of the gift and the gift of secrecy -- 5. Immanent atheology and the trace of transcendence -- 6. Undoing (k)not of apophaticism: a Heideggerian afterthought |
| Summary |
This book explores the co-dependency of monotheism and idolatry by examining the thought of several prominent twentieth-century Jewish philosophers Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, and Levinas. While all of these thinkers were keenly aware of the pitfalls of scriptural theism, to differing degrees they each succumbed to the temptation to personify transcendence, even as they tried either to circumvent or to restrain it by apophatically purging kataphatic descriptions of the deity. Derrida and Wyschogrod, by contrast, carried the project of denegation one step further, embarking on a path that culmina |
| Analysis |
Apophasis |
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Edith Wyschogrod |
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Emmanuel Levinas |
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Franz Rosenzweig |
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Hermann Cohen |
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Jacques Derrida |
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Jean-Luc Marion |
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Martin Buber |
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Martin Heidegger |
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gift |
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imagination |
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immanence |
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phenomenology |
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secret |
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theolatry |
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theomania |
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time |
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transcendance |
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via negativa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Buber, Martin 1878-1965 gnd |
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Cohen, Hermann. gnd |
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Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004 gnd |
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Lévinas, Emmanuel 1906-1995 gnd |
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Rosenzweig, Franz 1886-1929 gnd |
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Wyschogrod, Edith 1930-2009 gnd |
| Subject |
Jewish philosophy -- 20th century.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
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RELIGION -- Philosophy.
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Jewish philosophy
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Jüdische Philosophie
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780823255733 |
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0823255735 |
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9780823255740 |
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0823255743 |
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9780823261079 |
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0823261077 |
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