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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Poniatowska, Patrycja.
Other Authors: Tacik, Przemysław.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Studies in Jewish History and Memory Series
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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.

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