1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910520004403321

Autore

Elior Rachel

Titolo

The three temples : on the emergence of Jewish mysticism / / Rachel Elior ; translated by David Louvish

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, , 2014

©2004

ISBN

1-909821-04-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 pages)

Collana

The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Disciplina

296.712

Soggetti

Mysticism - Judaism - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Dec 2019).

Sommario/riassunto

In this ground-breaking study, Rachel Elior offers a comprehensive theory of the crystallization of the early stages of the mystical tradition in Judaism based on the numerous ancient scrolls and manuscripts published in the last few decades. Her wide-ranging research, scrupulously documented, enables her to demonstrate an uninterrupted line linking the priestly traditions of the Temple, the mystical liturgical literature found in the Qumran caves and associated directly and indirectly with the Merkavah tradition of around the second and first centuries BCE, and the mystical works of the second to fifth centuries CE known as Heikhalot literature.    The key factor linking all these texts, according to Professor Elior’s theory, is that many of those who wrote them were members of the priestly classes. Prevented from being able to perform the rituals of sacred service in the Temple as ordained in the biblical tradition, they channelled their religious impetus in other directions to create a new spiritual focus. The mystical tradition they developed centred first on a heavenly Chariot Throne known as the Merkavah, and later on heavenly sanctuaries known as Heikhalot. In this way the priestly class developed an alternative focus for spirituality, based on a supertemporal liturgical and ritual relationship with ministering angels in the supernal sanctuaries. This



came to embrace an entire mystical world devoted to sustaining religious liturgical tradition and ritual memory in the absence of the Temple.    This lyrical investigation of the origins and workings of this supernal world is sure to become a standard work in the study of early Jewish mysticism.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778872103321

Autore

Cascardi Anthony J. <1953->

Titolo

Consequences of enlightenment / / Anthony J. Cascardi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999

ISBN

1-107-11264-8

0-511-00486-9

1-280-15189-7

0-511-11621-7

0-511-14928-X

0-511-30295-9

0-511-48310-4

0-511-05313-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Literature, culture, theory ; ; 30

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Aesthetics - Political aspects

Aesthetics, Modern - 20th century

Enlightenment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. The consequences of Enlightenment -- ; 2. Aesthetics as critique -- ; 3. The difficulty of art -- ; 4. Communication and transformation: aesthetics and politics in Habermas and Arendt -- ; 5. The role of aesthetics in the radicalization of democracy -- ; 6. Infinite reflection and the shape of praxis -- ; 7. Feeling and/as force.

Sommario/riassunto

What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment it claims to reject? In Consequences of



Enlightenment, Anthony Cascardi revisits the arguments advanced in Horkheimer and Adorno's seminal work Dialectic of Enlightenment. Cascardi argues against the view that postmodern culture has rejected Enlightenment beliefs and explores instead the continuities contemporary theory shares with Kant's failed ambition to bring the project of Enlightenment to completion. He explores the link between aesthetics and politics in thinkers as diverse as Habermas, Derrida, Arendt, Nietzsche, Hegel, and Wittgenstein in order to reverse the tendency to see works of art simply in terms of the worldly practices among which they are situated.