Tangle of Matter & Ghost : : Leonard Cohen's Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & Beyond / / Aubrey Glazer.

• VerfasserIn: Glazer, Aubrey,
• MitwirkendeR: Magid, Shaul,; Wolfson, Elliot R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Leonard Cohen's Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & beyond analyzes the lyrical poetry of Leonard Cohen through a post-secular lens. The volume fuses sophisticated theory and popular culture with critical analysis that is lacking in most of the rock n' roll biographies about Leonard Cohen. How does this mystical maestro's songbook emerge to illuminate questions of meaning making in a post-secular context when correlated with thinkers like Charles Taylor, Edward S. Casey, Jurgen Habermas, Slavoj Žižek, Jeffrey Kripal and Harold Bloom along with others. Cohen's mysticism is also analyzed in relationship to Kabbalah, Hasidism and Rinzai Buddhism. Tangle of Matter & Ghost presents a unique inter-disciplinary approach to Jewish philosophy and literary studies with wide appeal for diverse audiences and readership.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Prelude: New Skin for a Post-Secular Circum/Fession -- 2. On Exile as Redemption in (Canadian) Jewish Mysticism -- 3. From Darkness, a Love of All This: Seeking the Sacred in Post-Secular Song -- 4. Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Objective Spirit & Non-Dual Reality in Prayerful Poetry -- 5. A Question of Pure Consciousness in the Priestly Blessing of Love -- 6. Amen to American Agnosticism -- 7. Nothing as Whole as a Broken Middle Matzah -- 8. Falling with Our Angels, So Human -- 9. "An Appetite for Something Like Religion": Unbinding the Binding of Isaac, Jesus Christ & Joan of Arc through Zen -- 10. Standing Where There Used to Be a Street: 9/11 Post-Secularism & Sacred Song -- 11. Never Mind this Neuzeit, Here's Kaddish: Between the Nameless & the Name -- 12. Codetta: A Philosophy of Post-Secular Song in Light of Piyyut as a Cultural Lens -- 13. Coda: Burning Darker Beyond "You Want it Darker" -- Breaking the Brokenness and the Healing of the Poem: A Brief Meditation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index