Old worlds, new mirrors
Subtitle: on Jewish mysticism and twentieth-century thought
By: Moshe Idel.
Series: Jewish culture and contexts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780812241303
Subjects: Scholem, Gershom Gerhard, -- 1897-1982; Judaism -- 20th century; Jewish scholars; Mysticism -- Judaism; Cabala; Hasidism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Intellectual conceptualizations of Judaism.  Arnaldo Momigliano and Gershom Scholem on Jewish history and tradition; title: Eric Voegelin's Israel and revelation; title: George Steiner: a prophet of abstraction; title: Scholem's conceptualizations of Kabbalah. The function of symbols in Gershom Scholem; title: Hieroglyphs, mysteries, keys: Scholem between Molitor and Kafka; title: Subversive catalysts: Gnosticism and Messianism in Scholem's view of Jewish mysticism; title: Kabbalah in some twentieth-century thinkers. Franz Rosenzweig and Kabbalah; title: Abraham Abulafia, Gershom Scholem, and Walter Benjamin on language; title: Jacques Derrida and kabbalistic sources; title: Paul Celan's "psalm": a revelation toward naught; title: Understanding Hasidism. Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem on Hasidism; title: Abraham Heschel on mysticism and Hasidism; title: White Letters: from R. Levi Isaac of Berdichev to postmodern hermeneutics.