Nocturnal seeing : hopelessness of hope and philosophical gnosis in Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose, and Edith Wyschogrod /

In this erudite new work, Elliot R. Wolfson explores philosophical gnosis in the writings of Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose and Edith Wyschogrod. The juxtaposition of these three extraordinary, albeit relatively neglected, philosophers provides a prism through which Wolfson scrutinizes the interplay of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wolfson, Elliot R. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025].
Series:	Cultural memory in the present.
Subjects:	Melancholy (Philosophy) Ethics, Modern > 20th century. Philosophy, Modern > 20th century. Jewish philosophy > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : together apart : melancholia and the solitude of philosophic meditation
Brokenness of being and errancy of ontological untruth : Susan Taubes's joyful suffering
Between Athens and Jerusalem : the dubious certainty of Gillian Rose's broken middle
Death and the infinitization of finitude : Edith Wyschogrod's heterological hermeneutic
Melancholic redemption and the hopelessness of hope.