{"product_id":"language-eros-being-kabbalistic-hermeneutics-and-poetic-imagination-9780823224180","title":"Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis long-awaited, magisterial study-an unparalleled blend of philosophy, poetry, and philology-draws on theories of sexuality, phenomenology, comparative religion, philological writings on Kabbalah, Russian formalism, Wittgenstein, Rosenzweig, William Blake, and the very physics of the time-space continuum to establish what will surely be a highwater mark in work on Kabbalah. Not only a study of texts, Language, Eros, Being is perhaps the fullest confrontation of the body in Jewish studies, if not in religious studies as a whole. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElliot R. Wolfson explores the complex gender symbolism that permeates Kabbalistic literature. Focusing on the nexus of asceticism and eroticism, he seeks to define the role of symbolic and poetically charged language in the erotically configured visionary imagination of the medieval Kabbalists. He demonstrates that the traditional Kabbalistic view of gender was a monolithic and androcentric one, in which the feminine was conceived as being derived from the masculine. He does not shrink from the negative implications of this doctrine, but seeks to make an honest acknowledgment of it as the first step toward the redemption of \u003cbr\u003ean ancient wisdom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eComparisons with other mystical traditions-including those in Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam-are a remarkable feature throughout the book. They will make it important well beyond Jewish studies, indeed, a must for historians of comparative religion, in particular of comparative mysticism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePraise for Elliot R. Wolfson: \u003cbr\u003e\"Through a Speculum That Shines is an important and provocative contribution \u003cbr\u003eto the study of Jewish mysticism by one of the major scholars now working in this field.\"-Speculum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elliot R. Wolfson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.26h x 7.30w x 1.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823224180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Jewish Book Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eELLIOT R.WOLFSON\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Judge Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Among Wolfson's many books, Fordham has published \u003cem\u003eLanguage, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the 2005 National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship. Wolfson had earlier won this award, as well as the American Academy of Religion Award for the Best Book in category of Historical Studies, for his \u003cem\u003eThrough a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism\u003c\/em\u003e. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43173115002995,"sku":"9.78082E+12","price":179.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_2271a190-7813-4b22-b943-85a74b52a104.jpg?v=1751626935","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/language-eros-being-kabbalistic-hermeneutics-and-poetic-imagination-9780823224180","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}