Giving beyond the gift : apophasis and overcoming theomania /
This 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 eac...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt13x048n |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: 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.