Open secret : postmessianic messianism and the mystical revision of Menahẹm Mendel Schneerson /
Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994) was the seventh and seemingly last Rebbe of the Habad-Lubavitch dynasty. Marked by conflicting tendencies, Schneerson was a radical messianic visionary who promoted a conservative political agenda, a reclusive contemplative who built a hasidic sect into an inte...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
[2009]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/wolf14630 |
Table of Contents:
- Concealing the concealment: the politics of the esoteric
- Avoiding place: apophatic embodiment
- Semiotic transubstantiation of the somatic
- Messianic Torah: hypernomian transvaluation
- Female encircles male: gender transposition
- Apocalyptic crossing: beyond the (non)Jewish other
- Postface: in an instant: advent of the (non)event.