@Book{1602197466, author="Idel, Mosheh", title="Old Worlds, new Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought", series="Jewish culture and contexts", year="2009", publisher="Univ. of Pennsylvania Press", address="Philadelphia, PA", keywords="Jewish scholars; Mysticism; Judaism; Cabala; Hasidism", contents="Intellectual conceptualizations of Judaism. Arnaldo Momigliano and Gershom Scholem on Jewish history and tradition -- Eric Voegelin's Israel and revelation -- George Steiner: a prophet of abstraction -- Scholem's conceptualizations of Kabbalah. The function of symbols in Gershom Scholem -- Hieroglyphs, mysteries, keys: Scholem between Molitor and Kafka -- Subversive catalysts: Gnosticism and Messianism in Scholem's view of Jewish mysticism -- Kabbalah in some twentieth-century thinkers. Franz Rosenzweig and Kabbalah -- Abraham Abulafia, Gershom Scholem, and Walter Benjamin on language -- Jacques Derrida and kabbalistic sources -- Paul Celan's ``psalm'': a revelation toward naught -- Understanding Hasidism. Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem on Hasidism -- Abraham Heschel on mysticism and Hasidism -- White Letters: from R. Levi Isaac of Berdichev to postmodern hermeneutics.", note="Moshe Idel", note="Archivierung pr{\"u}fen 20200919 DE-640 1 pdager", isbn="9780812241303", language="English" }