1st Edition

Jewish Cryptotheologies of Late Modernity Philosophical Marranos

By Agata Bielik-Robson Copyright 2014
352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

This book aims to interpret ‘Jewish Philosophy’ in terms of the Marrano phenomenon: as a conscious clinamen of philosophical forms used in order to convey a ‘secret message’ which cannot find an open articulation. The Marrano phenomenon is employed here, in the domain of modern philosophical thought, where an analogous tendency can be seen: the clash of an open idiom and a secret meaning,... Read more

Introduction: Jewish Clinamen or the Third Language of Jewish Philosophy Part I: Myth, Tragedy & Revelation 1 Individuation through Sin: Hermann Cohen between Tragedy and Messianism 2 "Job-like Questions": The Place of Negativity in Rosenzweig 3 The Revolution of Trauma: Walter Benjamin and the Tragic Gnosis Part II: The Antinomian Spectre 4 The Antinomian Symptom: Levinas’ Divine Comedy 5 The identity of the Spirit: Taubes between Apocalyptics and Historiosophy 6 The Fire and the Lightning Rod: Tarrying and the Apocalypse Part III: Jewish Modernity 7 The Promise of the Name: "Jewish Nominalism" as the Critique of Idealist Tradition 8 Another Nihilism: Disenchantment in Jewish Perspective 9 Jewish Ulysses: Post Secular Meditation on the Loss of Hope

Biography

Agata Bielik-Robson is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Nottingham and at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw. Her research interests include: modern Jewish thought, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of religion. She is co-editor of Judaism in Contemporary Thought (Routledge, 2014).