LEADER 05313nam 2200913 450 001 9910789199503321 005 20211005224604.0 010 $a0-8232-5572-7 010 $a0-8232-5571-9 010 $a0-8232-5573-5 010 $a0-8232-6107-7 010 $a0-8232-5574-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823255733 035 $a(CKB)3710000000072454 035 $a(EBL)3239867 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001059774 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11585856 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001059774 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11086268 035 $a(PQKB)10912164 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239867 035 $a(OCoLC)870969979 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27585 035 $a(DE-B1597)554940 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823255733 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239867 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10810769 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL727777 035 $a(OCoLC)923764309 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1643963 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1643963 035 $a(OCoLC)908079372 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000072454 100 $a20130829d2014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGiving beyond the gift $eapophasis and overcoming theomania /$fElliot R. Wolfson 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (576 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-96495-5 311 $a0-8232-5570-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: imagination and the prism of the inapparent -- 1. Via negativa and the imaginal configuring of God -- 2. Apophatic vision and overcoming the dialogical -- 3. Echo of the otherwise and the lure of theolatry -- 4. Secrecy of the gift and the gift of secrecy -- 5. Immanent atheology and the trace of transcendence -- 6. Undoing (k)not of apophaticism: a Heideggerian afterthought. 330 $aThis book explores the co-dependency of monotheism and idolatry by examining the thought of several prominent twentieth-century Jewish philosophers?Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, and Levinas. While all of these thinkers were keenly aware of the pitfalls of scriptural theism, to differing degrees they each succumbed to the temptation to personify transcendence, even as they tried either to circumvent or to restrain it by apophatically purging kataphatic descriptions of the deity. Derrida and Wyschogrod, by contrast, carried the project of denegation one step further, embarking on a path that culminated in the aporetic suspension of belief and the consequent removal of all images from God, a move that seriously compromises the viability of devotional piety.The inquiry into apophasis, transcendence, and immanence in these Jewish thinkers is symptomatic of a larger question. Recent attempts to harness the apophatic tradition to construct a viable postmodern negative theology, a religion without religion, are not radical enough. Not only are these philosophies of transcendence guilty of a turn to theology that defies the phenomenological presupposition of an immanent phenomenality, but they fall short on their own terms, inasmuch as they persist in employing metaphorical language that personalizes transcendence and thereby runs the risk of undermining the irreducible alterity and invisibility attributed to the transcendent other.The logic of apophasis, if permitted to run its course fully, would exceed the need to posit some form of transcendence that is not ultimately a facet of immanence. Apophatic theologies, accordingly, must be supplanted by a more far-reaching apophasis that surpasses the theolatrous impulse lying coiled at the crux of theism, an apophasis of apophasis, based on accepting an absolute nothingness?to be distinguished from the nothingness of an absolute?that does not signify the unknowable One but rather the manifold that is the pleromatic abyss at being?s core. Hence, the much-celebrated metaphor of the gift must give way to the more neutral and less theologically charged notion of an unconditional givenness in which the distinction between giver and given collapses. To think givenness in its most elemental, phenomenological sense is to allow the apparent to appear as given without presuming a causal agency that would turn that given into a gift. 606 $aJewish philosophy$y20th century 610 $aApophasis. 610 $aEdith Wyschogrod. 610 $aEmmanuel Levinas. 610 $aFranz Rosenzweig. 610 $aHermann Cohen. 610 $aJacques Derrida. 610 $aJean-Luc Marion. 610 $aMartin Buber. 610 $aMartin Heidegger. 610 $agift. 610 $aimagination. 610 $aimmanence. 610 $aphenomenology. 610 $asecret. 610 $atheolatry. 610 $atheomania. 610 $atime. 610 $atranscendance. 610 $avia negativa. 615 0$aJewish philosophy 676 $a181/.06 700 $aWolfson$b Elliot R$01112371 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789199503321 996 $aGiving beyond the gift$93747966 997 $aUNINA