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...

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Subtitles:Review Essay
Main Author: Wasserstrom, Steven M. 1953- (Author)
Contributors: Wolfson, Elliot R. 1956- (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press [2008]
In: AJS review
Year: 2008, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 389-396
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
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Book review
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