Kabbalah and Postmodernism: A Dialogue

✍ Scribed by Sanford L. Drob

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 357
• Series: Studies in Judaism 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Kabbalah and Postmodernism: A Dialogue challenges certain long-held philosophical and theological beliefs, including the assumptions that the insights of mystical experience are unavailable to human reason and inexpressible in linguistic terms, that the God of traditional theology either does or does not exist, that «systematic theology» must provide a univocal account of God, man, and the world, that «truth» is «absolute» and not continually subject to radical revision, and that the truth of propositions in philosophy and theology excludes the truth of their opposites and contradictions. Readers of Kabbalah and Postmodernism will be exposed to a comprehensive mode of theological thought that incorporates the very doubts that would otherwise lead one to challenge the possibility of theology and religion, and which both preserves the riches of the Jewish tradition and extends beyond Judaism to a non-dogmatic universal philosophy and ethic.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: A Mysticism of Ideas
1 Postmodernism and Jewish Mysticism
2 Derrida and Jewish Mysticism
3 Tzimtzum and Différance
4 The Shevirah and Deconstruction
5 A-Systematic Theology
6 The Doctrine of Coincidentia Oppositorum in Jewish Mysticism
7 The Torah of the Tree of Life
8 Beyond the Bounds of Language
9 Creation Ex Nihilo and the Impossible Messiah
10 Kabbalah, Forms of Consciousness and the Structure of Language

✦ Subjects

Systematic Theology Sacred Writings Hebrew Bible Old Testament Talmud Torah Zohar Judaism Religion Spirituality Kabbalah Mysticism Philosophy Religious Studies Modern Politics Social Sciences Ethnic Specific Demographics