Suffering time
Subtitle: philosophical, kabbalistic, and ḥasidic reflections on temporality
By: by Elliot R. Wolfson
Series: Supplements to the journal of Jewish thought and philosophy -- volume 30
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004449336; 9789004449343
Subjects: Time; Judaism; Jewish philosophy
Description: "The conception of time elicited by Wolfson from a host of philosophical and mystical sources-both Jewish and non-Jewish-buttresses the contention that it is precisely structural invariability that engenders interpretive variation. This hermeneutical axiom is justified, in turn, by the presumption regarding the cadence of time as the constant return of what has always been what is yet to be"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.