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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783669603321

Autore

Wolfson Elliot R

Titolo

Alef, mem, tau [[electronic resource] ] : kabbalistic musings on time, truth, and death / / Elliot R. Wolfson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2006

ISBN

1-282-75941-8

9786612759413

0-520-93231-5

1-59875-916-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Collana

The Taubman lectures in Jewish studies ; ; 5

Disciplina

296.1/6

Soggetti

Time - Philosophy

Time - Religious aspects - Judaism

Cabala - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Thinking Time / Hermeneutic Suppositions -- 2. Linear Circularity / (A)Temporal Poetics -- 3. Before Alef / Where Beginnings End -- 4. Within Mem / Returning Forward -- 5. After Tau / Where Endings Begin -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This highly original, provocative, and poetic work explores the nexus of time, truth, and death in the symbolic world of medieval kabbalah. Demonstrating that the historical and theoretical relationship between kabbalah and western philosophy is far more intimate and extensive than any previous scholar has ever suggested, Elliot R. Wolfson draws an extraordinary range of thinkers such as Frederic Jameson, Martin Heidegger, Franz Rosenzweig, William Blake, Julia Kristeva, Friedrich Schelling, and a host of kabbalistic figures into deep conversation with one another. Alef, Mem, Tau also discusses Islamic mysticism and Buddhist thought in relation to the Jewish esoteric tradition as it opens the possibility of a temporal triumph of temporality and the conquering of time through time. The framework for Wolfson's examination is the rabbinic teaching that the word emet, "truth," comprises the first,



middle, and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet, alef, mem, and tau, which serve, in turn, as semiotic signposts for the three tenses of time-past, present, and future. By heeding the letters of emet we discern the truth of time manifestly concealed in the time of truth, the beginning that cannot begin if it is to be the beginning, the middle that re/marks the place of origin and destiny, and the end that is the figuration of the impossible disclosing the impossibility of figuration, the finitude of death that facilitates the possibility of rebirth. The time of death does not mark the death of time, but time immortal, the moment of truth that bestows on the truth of the moment an endless beginning of a beginningless end, the truth of death encountered incessantly in retracing steps of time yet to be taken-between, before, beyond.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787182303321

Titolo

Indians in American history : an introduction / / edited by Frederick E. Hoxie & Peter Iverson ; contributors, James A. Brown [and fifteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wheeling, Illinois : , : Harlan Davidson, Inc., , 1998

©1998

ISBN

1-118-81870-9

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

973/.0497/0072

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Historiography

Indians of North America - History - Study and teaching

Indians of North America - History

United States Historiography

United States History Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Preface to the First Edition; Introduction; Chapter One: America Before Columbus;



Geographic Regions; The Arctic Area; The Subarctic; The Northwest Coast; The Far West; The Southwest; The Great Plains; The Eastern Woodlands; Native North American Cultural Development; For Further Reading; Chapter Two: The Indians'' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans; For Further Reading; Chapter Three: Indians in the Colonial Spanish Borderlands; For Further Reading

Chapter Four: Native Americans and the American Revolution: Historic Stories and Shifting Frontier Conflict Imperial Story: 1760-1774; Revolution: The Story of Conquest; Religious Revitalization: An Indian Story; Conclusion: Story and Conflict; For Further Reading; Chapter Five: Indian Tribes and the American Constitution; The Constitution, Indian Law, and the Marshall Trilogy; The Place of Indian Tribes in the Constitutional Framework; Due Process and Equal Protection; Federal Preemption of State Law; The Impact of Indian Law on Constitutional Law in the American West; Conclusion

For Further Reading Chapter Six: Indians in Southern History; For Further Reading; Chapter Seven: National Expansion from the Indian Perspective; For Further Reading; Chapter Eight: How the West Was Lost; For Further Reading; Chapter Nine: The Curious Story of Reformers and American Indians; For Further Reading; Chapter Ten: Modern America and the Indian; For Further Reading; Chapter Eleven: The Struggle for Indian Civil Rights; For Further Reading; Chapter Twelve: The 1970's: New Leaders for Indian Country; For Further Reading

Chapter Thirteen: The Hearts of Nations: American Indian Women in the Twentieth Century For Further Reading; Appendix; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Like its highly popular and distinctive predecessor, this new edition of Indians in American History strives to fully integrate Indians into the conventional U.S. history narrative. Meticulously reedited throughout, this beautifully illustrated book features fourteen essays by fifteen authors who speak from a variety of disciplines and perspectives.