Old Worlds, New Mirrors PDF Download. Download free ebook of Old Worlds, New Mirrors in PDF format or read online by Moshe Idel 9780812241303 Published on 2010 by University of Pennsylvania Press
There emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a new Jewish elite, notes Moshe Idel, no longer made up of prophets, priests, kings, or rabbis but of intellectuals and academicians working in secular universities or writing for an audience not defined by any one set of religious beliefs. In Old Worlds, New Mirrors Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig, Arnaldo Momigliano and Paul Celan, Abraham Heschel and George Steiner to reflect on their relationships to Judaism in a cosmopolitan, mostly European, context. Idel—himself one of the world's most eminent scholars of Jewish mysticism—focuses in particular on the mystical aspects of his subjects' writings. Avoiding all attempts to discern anything like a single |essence of Judaism| in their works, he nevertheless maintains a sustained effort to illumine especially the Kabbalistic and Hasidic strains of thought these figures would have derived from earlier Jewish sources. Looming large throughout is Gershom Scholem, the thinker who played such a crucial role in establishing the study of Kabbalah as a modern academic discipline and whose influence pervades Idel's own work; indeed, the author observes, much of the book may be seen as a mirror held up to reflect on the broader reception of Scholem's thought.
This Book was ranked at 22 by Google Books for keyword Mysticism.
Book ID of Old Worlds, New Mirrors's Books is CvDGlAI5DjwC, Book which was written by Moshe Idel have ETAG "AHTkE9H8UYY"
Book which was published by University of Pennsylvania Press since 2010 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780812241303 and ISBN 10 Code is 0812241304
Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is true
Book which have "323 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryHistory
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is true
Book Preview
Download Old Worlds, New Mirrors PDF Free
Download Old Worlds, New Mirrors Books Free
Download Old Worlds, New Mirrors Free
Download Old Worlds, New Mirrors PDF
Download Old Worlds, New Mirrors Books
No comments:
Post a Comment