Language, Eros, Being : : Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination / / Elliot R. Wolfson.
This long-awaited, magisterial study-an unparalleled blend of philosophy, poetry, and philology-draws on theories of sexuality, phenomenology, comparative religion, philological writings on Kabbalah, Russian formalism, Wittgenstein, Rosenzweig, William Blake, and the very physics of the time-space c...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue: Timeswerve/Hermeneutic Reversibility -- 1. Showing the Saying: Laying Interpretative Ground -- 2. Differentiating (In)Difference: Heresy, Gender, and Kabbalah Study -- 3. Phallomorphic Exposure: Concealing Soteric Esotericism -- 4. Male Androgyne: Engendering E/Masculation -- 5. Flesh Become Word: Textual Embodiment and Poetic Incarnation -- 6. Envisioning Eros: Poiesis and Heeding Silence -- 7. Eunuchs Who Keep Sabbath: Erotic Asceticism / Ascetic Eroticism -- 8. Coming-to-Head, Returning-to-Womb: (E)Soteric Gnosis and Overcoming Gender Dimorphism -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Book Titles -- Index of Subjects and Terms |
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