Duplicity of Philosophy''s Shadow - Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other

Zusatztext Elliot Wolfson's The Duplicity of Philosophy's Shadow: Heidegger! Nazism! and the Jewish Other is! in my opinion! the most sophisticated engagement with the 'problem' of Martin Heidegger's Nazism in the English language Informationen zum Autor Elliot R. Wolfson is the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Distinguished Professor of Religion at University of California! Santa Barbara. A fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! he is the author of many books including Language! Eros! Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination (2005); Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson (Columbia! 2009); A Dream Interpreted Within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination (2011); and Giving Beyond the Gift: Apophasis and Overcoming Theomania (2014). Zusammenfassung Elliot R. Wolfson intervenes in the debate over Martin Heidegger and Nazism from a unique perspective, as a scholar of Jewish mysticism and philosophy who has been profoundly influenced by Heidegger’s work. He reveals crucial aspects of Heidegger’s thinking that betray an affinity with dimensions of Jewish thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Calculating Heidegger's Miscalculation 1. Barbaric Enchantment: From Existential Ontology to Abyssal Meontology 2. Nomadism! Homelessness! and the Obfuscation of Being 3. Jewish Time and the Historiographical Eclipse of Historical Destiny 4. Being's Tragedy: Heidegger's Silence and the Ring of Solitude 5. Political Disavowal: Truth and Concealing the Unconcealment 6. Heidegger! Balaam! and the Duplicity of Philosophy's Shadow Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Elliot R. Wolfson, Elliot R. Wolfson, Wolfson Elliot R.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780231185622
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18562-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, RELIGION / Judaism / History, RELIGION / Judaism / Kabbalah & Mysticism, PHILOSOPHY / Hermeneutics, History of Religion, The Holocaust, Judaism, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Judaism: mysticism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust