TY - BOOK ED - Bielik-Robson, Agata ED - Weiss, Daniel H. PY - 2020 DA - 2020// TI - Tsimtsum and modernity: Lurianic heritage in modern philosophy and theology T3 - Perspectives on Jewish texts and contexts 16 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish AB - Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction An Unhistorical History of Tsimtsum: A Break with Neoplatonism? -- Part 1: Tsimtsum and the Jewish Tradition -- The Midrashic Background of the Doctrine of Divine Contraction: Against Gershom Scholem on Tsimtsum -- Tsimtsum between the Bible and Philosophy: Levinas, Luria, and Genesis 1 -- Hasidic Thought and Tsimtsum’s Linguistic Turn -- Part 2: Tsimtsum and Modern Philosophy -- Tsimtsum and the Root of Finitude -- Unfolding the Enfolded: Schelling and Lurianic Kabbalah -- Tsimtsum, Lichtung, and the Leap of Bestowing Refusal: Kabbalistic and Heideggerian Metaontology in Dialogue -- Taking Space Seriously: Tehiru, Khora and the Freudian Void -- The Retreat of the Poet in Walter Benjamin’s “Two Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin” -- “The Kabbalistic Problem is not Specifically Theological”: Franz Rosenzweig on Tsimtsum -- Tsimtsum as Eclipse: Anthropomorphism and Transcendence in Buber and Horkheimer -- Part 3: Tsimtsum after the Holocaust -- Tsimtsum as the Traumnabel of Modern Jewish Philosophy: Between History and Revelation -- Tsimtsum and Political Theology in the Thought of Gershom Scholem -- ‘Abyss Calls Unto Abyss’: Tsimtsum and Kenosis in the Rupture of God-forsakenness -- Traces of Tsimtsum: Berkovits, Fackenheim, Levinas -- Transcendental Tsimtsum: Levinas’s mythology of meaning -- Derrida Denudata: Tsimtsum and the Derridean Metaphysics of Non-Presence -- Tsimtsum: Media and Arts -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index SN - 9783110684353 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110684353 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9783110684353.jpg UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110684353 DO - 10.1515/9783110684353 LA - English N1 - edited by Agata Bielik-Robson and Daniel H. Weiss ID - 1742788211 ER -