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  • Open Secret

    Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson

    by Elliot R. Wolfson ...
    Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994) was the seventh and seemingly last Rebbe of the Habad-Lubavitch dynasty. Marked by conflicting tendencies, Schneerson was a radical messianic visionary who promoted a conservative political agenda, a reclusive contemplative who built a hasidic sect into an international movement, and a man dedicated to the exposition of mysteries who nevertheless harbored many ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Heidegger and Kabbalah

    Hidden Gnosis and the Path of Poiēsis

    by Elliot R. Wolfson ...
    Series series New Jewish Philosophy and Thought
    While many scholars have noted Martin Heidegger's indebtedness to Christian mystical sources, as well as his affinity with Taoism and Buddhism, Elliot R. Wolfson expands connections between Heidegger's thought and kabbalistic material. By arguing that the Jewish esoteric tradition impacted Heidegger, Wolfson presents an alternative way of understanding the history of Western philosophy. Wolfson's ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Heidegger and Kabbalah

    Hidden Gnosis and the Path of Poiesis

    by Elliot R. Wolfson ...
    Series series New Jewish Philosophy and Thought
    While many scholars have noted Martin Heidegger's indebtedness to Christian mystical sources, as well as his affinity with Taoism and Buddhism, Elliot R. Wolfson expands connections between Heidegger's thought and kabbalistic material. By arguing that the Jewish esoteric tradition impacted Heidegger, Wolfson presents an alternative way of understanding the history of Western philosophy. Wolfson's ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nocturnal Seeing

    Hopelessness of Hope and Philosophical Gnosis in Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose, and Edith Wyschogrod

    by Elliot R. Wolfson ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    In this erudite new work, Elliot R. Wolfson explores philosophical gnosis in the writings of Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose, and Edith Wyschogrod. The juxtaposition of these three extraordinary, albeit relatively neglected, philosophers provides a prism through which Wolfson scrutinizes the interplay of ethics, politics, and theology. The bond that ties together the diverse and multifaceted worldviews ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes

    Between Nihilism and Hope

    by Elliot R. Wolfson ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish Mysticism
    The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes offers a detailed analysis of an extraordinary figure in the twentieth-century history of Jewish thought, Western philosophy, and the study of religion. Drawing on close readings of Susan Taubes's writings, including her correspondence with Jacob Taubes, scholarly essays, literary compositions, and poems, Elliot R. Wolfson plumbs the depths of the tragic ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Giving Beyond the Gift

    Apophasis and Overcoming Theomania

    by Elliot R. Wolfson ...
    This book explores the co-dependency of monotheism and idolatry by examining the thought of several prominent twentieth-century Jewish philosophers—Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, and Levinas. While all of these thinkers were keenly aware of the pitfalls of scriptural theism, to differing degrees they each succumbed to the temptation to personify transcendence, even as they tried either to circumvent or ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • The Duplicity of Philosophy's Shadow

    Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other

    by Elliot R. Wolfson ...
    Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) is considered one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century in spite of his well-known transgressions—his complicity with National Socialism and his inability to show remorse or compassion for its victims. In The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow, Elliot R. Wolfson intervenes in a debate that has seen much attention in scholarly and popular media ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Through a Speculum That Shines

    Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism

    by Elliot R. Wolfson ...
    A comprehensive treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the overwhelmingly visual nature of religious experience in Jewish spirituality from antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Using phenomenological and critical historical tools, Wolfson examines Jewish mystical texts from late antiquity, pre-kabbalistic sources from the tenth to the ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • The Duplicity of Philosophy's Shadow

    Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other

    by Elliot R. Wolfson ...
    Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) is considered one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century in spite of his well-known transgressions—his complicity with National Socialism and his inability to show remorse or compassion for its victims. In The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow, Elliot R. Wolfson intervenes in a debate that has seen much attention in scholarly and popular media ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Language, Eros, Being

    Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination

    by 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 continuum to establish what will surely be a highwater mark in work on Kabbalah. Not only a study of ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Jews and the Ends of Theory

    by James I. Porter, Svetlana Boym, Elliot R. Wolfson, Martin Land, Senior Lecturer, Computer Science, Yehouda Shenhav, Hannan Hever, Sarah Hammerschlag, Martin Jay, Sergey Dolgopolski0, Andrew Bush1, Jay Geller2 ...
    Theory, as it’s happened across the humanities, has often been coded as “Jewish.” This collection of essays seeks to move past explanations for this understanding that rely on the self-evident (the historical centrality of Jews to the rise of Critical Theory with the Frankfurt School) or stereotypical (psychoanalysis as the “Jewish Science”) in order to show how certain problematics of modern ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Suffering Religion

    Edited by Robert Gibbs, Elliot R. Wolfson ...
    In a diverse and innovative selection of new essays by cutting-edge theologians and philosophers, Suffering Religion examines one of the most primitive but challenging questions to define human experience - why do we suffer? As a theme uniting very different religious and cultural traditions, the problem of suffering addresses issues of passivity, the vulnerability of embodiment, the generosity of ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD