Old worlds, new mirrors : on Jewish mysticism and twentieth-century thought /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Idel, Moshe, 1947-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]
Series:	Jewish culture and contexts.
Subjects:	Judaism > 20th century. Jewish scholars. Mysticism > Judaism. Cabala. Hasidism. Scholem, Gershom, > 1897-1982.

Table of Contents:

Intellectual conceptualizations of Judaism. Arnaldo Momigliano and Gershom Scholem on Jewish history and tradition
Eric Voegelin's Israel and revelation
George Steiner: a prophet of abstraction
Scholem's conceptualizations of Kabbalah. The function of symbols in Gershom Scholem
Hieroglyphs, mysteries, keys: Scholem between Molitor and Kafka
Subversive catalysts: Gnosticism and Messianism in Scholem's view of Jewish mysticism
Kabbalah in some twentieth-century thinkers. Franz Rosenzweig and Kabbalah
Abraham Abulafia, Gershom Scholem, and Walter Benjamin on language
Jacques Derrida and kabbalistic sources
Paul Celan's "psalm": a revelation toward naught
Understanding Hasidism. Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem on Hasidism
Abraham Heschel on mysticism and Hasidism
White Letters: from R. Levi Isaac of Berdichev to postmodern hermeneutics.