The Freedom of Lights : : Edmond Jabès and Jewish Philosophy of Modernity.

• Superior document: Studies in Jewish History and Memory Series ; v.12
• Author: Poniatowska, Patrycja.
• TeilnehmendeR: Tacik, Przemysław.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt a.M. : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2019.; {copy}2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Jewish History and Memory Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (407 pages)

The book offers a comprehensive philosophical reconstruction of the work of Edmond Jabès─a Jewish-French poet, modern Kabbalist and thinker. It is a starting point for an enquiry into the nature of the encounter between Judaism and modern philosophy. Philosophically, Judaism becomes a re-constructe...

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Copyright information
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Jewish Philosophy of Modernity
• On the Affinities between Modernity and Judaism
• The Problematic Connectedness between Judaism and Modern Thought
• The Universe of Modernity I: The Historical Hiatus
• The Universe of Modernity II: The Structure that Conditions Thinking
• The Universe of Modernity III: The Problem of Philosophical Account of Judaism
• The Concept of Jewish Philosophy of Modernity
• 2 Edmond Jab è s: Life and Writing
• Life
• Writing
• Conclusion: Jab è s' Supercooled Modernism
• 3 Tzimtzum: Jab è s and Luria
• Inaccessibility of the Origins
• Effects of the Catastrophe
• The Jab è sian Tzimtzum : An Outline
• Tzimtzum as an Ontological Principle
• The Imaginary and the Real
• Tzimtzum as the Principle of Discontinuity
• An Example of the Tzimtzum Cycle: The Act of Writing
• Tzimtzum in Jab è s and in Luria
• Conclusion: The Jab è sian Tzimtzum as a Philosophical Idea of Modernity
• 4 Negative Ontology I: The Vocable
• The Vocable : The Concept and its Contexts
• The Vocable as an Element of Negative Ontology
• The Vocable as a Trace of the Indicible
• Representation and Repetition
• Writing as a Philosophical Practice
• The Role of the Text as a Path of Tzimtzum
• Conclusion: Kabbalistic vs. Modern Meaning of the Ontology of Writing
• 5 Negative Ontology II: God, Nothing and the Name
• God  - Nothing
• Tzimtzum and the Exigency of Monotheism
• Language and Monotheism
• Conclusion: Relentless Theology and the Fate of Jerusalem
• 6 Messianism of Writing
• Hope for the Definitive Book
• Messianism and Jab è s ' Ontology
• Messianism, Time and Truth
• The Risk of Messianism:  " The Edge of the Book "
• God as the Ultimate Reader: Messianism and Monotheism
• Oneness and Equality of Things.
• Equality of Things: Possibility and Impossibility
• The Essence of Messianic Utopia
• Messianism ' s Bi-directional Movement
• There Is No Salvation Beyond Writing
• Conclusion: Jab è s ' Messianism and Modern Philosophy
• 7 The Concept of the Book
• Introduction: The Layers of the Book
• Whiteness: Continuity and Legibility
• Whiteness: The Awe of Excess and Sur-vival
• Whiteness: Existence as Incompletion and Succession
• The Script of the Book
• Writing and the Book
• Writing as Marking the Book: Jab è s vs. Hegel and Mallarm é
• Writing Instead of Knowledge
• Conclusion: The Book and Jewish Philosophy of Modernity
• 8 Judaism and Writing
• Introduction: A Jew and a Writer
• Writing and Judaism: The Structure of the Book
• The Wound as the Beginning of Judaism and Writing
• Historicity: Judaism as a Religion after Religion
• The Jew and the Writer: A Silent Community
• The Fusion of Judaism and Writing: Life as Interpretation
• Conclusion: Jab è s ' Judaism and Jewish Philosophy of Modernity
• 9 The Shoah and Anti-Semitism
• The Shoah as a Disaster
• Bearing Witness to the Shoah
• Anti-Semitism as the Rule of the Name
• Conclusion: Anti-Semitism and the Modern Depletion
• 10 Jab è s ' Ethics: Repetition, Resemblance and Hospitality
• Repetition
• Resemblance
• Hospitality
• The End in Whiteness: A Possibility of Modern Ethics
• 11 Theology of the Point: Jab è s as a Modern Kabbalist
• Introduction: Linguistic Kabbalism in Jab è s ' Thinking
• From Letters to the Point
• Introduction to Kabbalism of the Point, or on Jab è s ' Materialistic Diff é rance
• The Point as the Basis of Creation
• The Point as the End of God ' s Erasure and Withdrawal
• Conclusion: What the Theology of the Point Actually Describes
• Conclusion: Edmond Jabès and Jewish Philosophy of Modernity
• References
• Index.