Giving Beyond the Gift : : Apophasis and Overcoming Theomania / / 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 eac...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (576 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • 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
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index