Gateway to a new kabbalah
Subtitle: Jewish mysticism, postmodernism, and contemporary theology
By: Sanford L. Drob.
Series: Studies in Judaism -- v. 3
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781433103049
Subjects: Cabala -- History; Mysticism -- Judaism; Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Judaism -- Doctrines
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a mysticism of ideas; title: Postmodernism and Jewish mysticism; title: Derrida and the kabbalah; title: Tzimtzum and "differance"; title: The shevirah and deconstruction; title: A-systematic theology; title: A rational mystical ascent: the coincidence of opposites in kabbalistic and Hasidic thought; title: The Torah of the tree of life: kabbalistic reflections on the hermeneutics of infinity in Scholem, Idel, Dan, and Tishby; title: Beyond the bounds of language; title: Creation ex nihilo and the impossible Messiah; title: Entering the gate: kabbalah, consciousness and the structure of language.