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Acknowledgements Preface: Shaul Magid Chapter 1: Prelude: New Skin for Post-Secular Philosophy of Circum/fession Chapter 2: On Exile As Redemption in (Canadian) Jewish Mysticism Chapter 3: From Darkness, A Love of All This: Seeking Sacred in Post-Secular Song Chapter 4: Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Objective Spirit & Non-Dual Reality Chapter 5: A Question of Pure Consciousness in the Priestly Blessing of Love Chapter 6: Amen to American Agnosticism Chapter 7: Nothing as Whole as a Broken Middle Matzah Chapter 8: Falling with Our Angels, So Human Chapter 9: ¿An Appetite for Something Like Religion¿: Unbinding the Binding of Isaac, Jesus Christ & Joan of Arc through Zen Chapter 10: Standing Where There Used to Be a Street: 9/11 Post-Secularism & Sacred Song Chapter 11: Never Mind this Neuzeit, Here¿s Kaddish: Between the Nameless & the Name Chapter 12: Coda: A Philosophy of Post-Secular Song in Light of Piyyut as a Cultural Lens Postface: Elliot R. Wolfson
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Aubrey L. Glazer, Ph.D. (University of Toronto) is rabbi of Congregation Beth Sholom, San Francisco. His latest books dedicated to exploring Jewish philosophy in different contexts:
Mystical Vertigo: Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide (Academic Studies Press, 2013) and
A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking: Critical Theory After Adorno as Applied to Jewish Thought (Continuum, 2011) recently translated into Hebrew (Resling Press, 2015).
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Analyses the lyrical poetry of Leonard Cohen through a post-secular lens. The volume fuses sophisticated theory and popular culture with critical analysis that is lacking in most of the rock n' roll biographies about Leonard Cohen.
