Moshe Idel

Broschiertes Buch

Old Worlds, New Mirrors

On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought

Beschreibung

In Old Worlds, New Mirrors Moshe Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig, Arnaldo Momigliano and Paul Celan, Abraham Heschel and George Steiner to reflect on their relationships to Judaism in a cosmopolitan, mostly European, context.

Autor

Moshe Idel is Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Senior Researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He is the winner of many awards and prizes, including the EMET Prize, given by the Prime Minister of Israel; the Israel Prize for Jewish Thought; the Gershom Scholem Prize for research in Kabbalah, given by the Israeli Academy for Sciences and Humanities; and the National Jewish Book Award. Among his many books are Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic, Absorbing Perfections: Kabbalah and Interpretation, and Kabbalah and Eros.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 154mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780812222104
• ISBN-10: 0812222105
• Artikelnr.: 35056856