Ebook: Giving beyond the gift: apophasis and overcoming theomania
Author: Wyschogrod Edith, Lévinas Emmanuel, Cohen Hermann, Wolfson Elliot R., Buber Martin, Rosenzweig Franz, Derrida Jacques
- Tags: Jüdische Philosophie, PHILOSOPHY--Eastern, RELIGION--Philosophy, Jewish philosophy--20th century, Jewish philosophy, Jewish philosophy -- 20th century, PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern, RELIGION -- Philosophy, Buber Martin -- 1878-1965, Cohen Hermann, Derrida Jacques -- 1930-2004, Lévinas Emmanuel -- 1906-1995, Rosenzweig Franz -- 1886-1929, Wyschogrod Edith -- 1930-2009, Jüdische Philosophie
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Fordham University Press
- City: New York
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
- epub
Introduction: imagination and the prism of the inapparent -- 1. Via negativa and the imaginal configuring of God -- 2. Apophatic vision and overcoming the dialogical -- 3. Echo of the otherwise and the lure of theolatry -- 4. Secrecy of the gift and the gift of secrecy -- 5. Immanent atheology and the trace of transcendence -- 6. Undoing (k)not of apophaticism: a Heideggerian afterthought.;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 to restrain it by apophatically purging kataphatic descriptions of the deity. Derrida and Wyschogrod, by contrast, carried the project of denegation one step further, embarking on a path that culmina.
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