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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Subjects
- Religion & Beliefs
- ISBN
- 9780791437384
- Subject Area
- Religion
- Publication Name
- Alchemy of the Word : Cabala of the Renaissance
- Publisher
- STATE University of New York Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Judaism / History, General, Judaism / Kabbalah & Mysticism
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Series
- Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0 in
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 364 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
STATE University of New York Press
ISBN-10
0791437388
ISBN-13
9780791437384
eBay Product ID (ePID)
707138
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
364 Pages
Publication Name
Alchemy of the Word : Cabala of the Renaissance
Language
English
Subject
Judaism / History, General, Judaism / Kabbalah & Mysticism
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion
Series
Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
97-037506
Reviews
"This is a work revealing great erudition, and takes us into many hidden byways. It is, as the author suggests, a 'rhizome' of a book. Full of unexpected connections and information, Alchemy of the Word is a solid contribution to the still all-too-neglected field." -- Arthur Versluis, Michigan State University
Dewey Edition
21
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
296.16094
Table Of Content
Preface 1. In the Beginning Scholem and Benjamin The Zohar The Two Sources of Morality and Religion Losing the Reader Exile and the Bride of Sabbath Lilith and the Shekinah Cabala and the Medieval Manichees People of the Book Cabala as Rhizome The One and the Two Many 2. The Secret of Agrippa Pico's Conclusions Reuchlin's Art Cabala between Freud and Jung Agrippa's Open Secret Agrippa and His Shadow The Two Laws Cabala as Fad Cabala as Beginning The Paradox of Secrecy 3. Bibliographoca Kabbalistica Topics in Cabala The Dissemination of Cabala Cabala as Motif 4. The Kiss of the Spouse, Cabala in England (1497-1700) Cabala, Shakespeare, and The School of Night The Cabals of the Age if Elizabeth (H)Enoch Clapham Redivivus?Ancient Theology and the Protestant Preacher The Other John Davies Inebriation as Ascent The Occult Sir Thomas Browne Cabala in the Baroque Renaissance Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Explores the literary, philosophical, and cultural implications of Cabala during the Renaissance. Alchemy of the Word is a study of the literary, philosophical, and cultural ramifications of Cabala during the Renaissance. Important intellectual figures from 1490 to 1690 are considered, including Agrippa, Dee, Spenser, Shakespeare, Browne, and Milton; Cabala's more recent impact is also discussed. Cabala, a hermeneutic style of Biblical commentary of Jewish origin, is based on the notion that, along with an inscribed Decalogue, Moses received a secret, oral supplement that provides a symbolic, allegorical, and moral qualification of the literal law of religion. Building on the work of Gershom Scholem, Joseph Blau, Harold Bloom, François Secret, Michel de Certeau, and Arthur Waite, Beitchman takes a fresh look at the "mystical" text through the lens of postmodernist theory. In a model developed from Deleuze-Guattari's "nomadology" to explore issues related to the Zohar, he shows that Cabala was a deconstruction of Renaissance authority. Like deconstruction, Cabala presents familiar material from novel and sometimes provocative perspectives. It allows space for modifiability, tolerance and humanity, by widening the margins between the letter of the law and the demands of an existence whose rules were so rapidly changing. An exercise in the literary analysis of "sacred texts" and an examination of the mystical element in literary works, Alchemy of the Word is also an experiment in new historicism. It shows how the reincarnation theories of F. M. Van Helmont, which impacted heavily on the seventeenth century English cabalistic circle of Henry More and Ann Conway, demonstrate at once the originality and boldness of Cabala, but also its desperation, constituting a theoretical parallel to the continental "acting out" of the Sabbatian heresy. Because of the debacle of the Sabbatian apostasy (conversion to Islam), Cabala subsequently declined in importance as a religious devotion, becoming either a matter of cults and heterodoxies or being sublimated into literary theory and practice., Alchemy of the Word is a study of the literary, philosophical, and cultural ramifications of Cabala during the Renaissance. Important intellectual figures from 1490 to 1690 are considered, including Agrippa, Dee, Spenser, Shakespeare, Browne, and Milton; Cabala's more recent impact is also discussed. Cabala, a hermeneutic style of Biblical commentary of Jewish origin, is based on the notion that, along with an inscribed Decalogue, Moses received a secret, oral supplement that provides a symbolic, allegorical, and moral qualification of the literal law of religion. Building on the work of Gershom Scholem, Joseph Blau, Harold Bloom, François Secret, Michel de Certeau, and Arthur Waite, Beitchman takes a fresh look at the "mystical" text through the lens of postmodernist theory. In a model developed from Deleuze-Guattari's "nomadology" to explore issues related to the Zohar, he shows that Cabala was a deconstruction of Renaissance authority. Like deconstruction, Cabala presents familiar material from novel and sometimes provocative perspectives. It allows space for modifiability, tolerance and humanity, by widening the margins between the letter of the law and the demands of an existence whose rules were so rapidly changing. An exercise in the literary analysis of "sacred texts" and an examination of the mystical element in literary works, Alchemy of the Word is also an experiment in new historicism. It shows how the reincarnation theories of F. M. Van Helmont, which impacted heavily on the seventeenth century English cabalistic circle of Henry More and Ann Conway, demonstrate at once the originality and boldness of Cabala, but also its desperation, constituting a theoretical parallel to the continental "acting out" of the Sabbatian heresy. Because of the debacle of the Sabbatian apostasy (conversion to Islam), Cabala subsequently declined in importance as a religious devotion, becoming either a matter of cults and heterodoxies or being sublimated into literary theory and practice., Alchemy of the Word is a study of the literary, philosophical, and cultural ramifications of Cabala during the Renaissance. Important intellectual figures from 1490 to 1690 are considered, including Agrippa, Dee, Spenser, Shakespeare, Browne, and Milton; Cabala's more recent impact is also discussed. Cabala, a hermeneutic style of Biblical commentary of Jewish origin, is based on the notion that, along with an inscribed Decalogue, Moses received a secret, oral supplement that provides a symbolic, allegorical, and moral qualification of the literal law of religion. Building on the work of Gershom Scholem, Joseph Blau, Harold Bloom, Fran ois Secret, Michel de Certeau, and Arthur Waite, Beitchman takes a fresh look at the "mystical" text through the lens of postmodernist theory. In a model developed from Deleuze-Guattari's "nomadology" to explore issues related to the Zohar, he shows that Cabala was a deconstruction of Renaissance authority. Like deconstruction, Cabala presents familiar material from novel and sometimes provocative perspectives. It allows space for modifiability, tolerance and humanity, by widening the margins between the letter of the law and the demands of an existence whose rules were so rapidly changing. An exercise in the literary analysis of "sacred texts" and an examination of the mystical element in literary works, Alchemy of the Word is also an experiment in new historicism. It shows how the reincarnation theories of F. M. Van Helmont, which impacted heavily on the seventeenth century English cabalistic circle of Henry More and Ann Conway, demonstrate at once the originality and boldness of Cabala, but also its desperation, constituting a theoretical parallel to the continental "acting out" of the Sabbatian heresy. Because of the debacle of the Sabbatian apostasy (conversion to Islam), Cabala subsequently declined in importance as a religious devotion, becoming either a matter of cults and heterodoxies or being sublimated into literary theory and practice.
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