Melancholy jouissance and the study of Kabbalah: a review essay of Elliot R. Wolfson, Alef, Mem, Tau
These “kabbalistic musings on time, truth, and death” originated as the Taubman Lectures delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001. Wolfson summarizes them in his preface to Alef, Mem, Tau (henceforth AMT): “The goal of my lectures was to illumine the nexus of time, truth, and dea...
| Published in: | AJS review |
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| Subtitles: | Review Essay |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
[2008]
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AJS review
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| Review of: | Alef, mem, tau (Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.] : Univ. of California Press, 2006) (Wasserstrom, Steven M.)
Alef, mem, tau (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006) (Wasserstrom, Steven M.) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Cabala
/ Sefirot
/ Phenomenology
/ Philosophy
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | These “kabbalistic musings on time, truth, and death” originated as the Taubman Lectures delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001. Wolfson summarizes them in his preface to Alef, Mem, Tau (henceforth AMT): “The goal of my lectures was to illumine the nexus of time, truth, and death elicited from the symbolic imaginary of the Jewish esoteric tradition known by both practitioners and scholars as kabbalah” (xi). Without attempting further to isolate an “argument,” I can, at least, sketch for the potential reader some salient characteristics of these lectures. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009408000172 |