Primacies

Experience, Expression, and the Jewish Imagination

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

A powerful exploration of how literature expresses and transforms our earliest preverbal experiences.Primacies begins with the assertion that our earliest preverbal experiences are accompanied by a primary language—a universal expression of tears, cries, and laughter offered long before we learn our distinctive, ordinary languages. For Michael Fishbane, these “primacies” release the raw feelings of our existential condition and catalyze our most powerful literary expressions of sorrow, joy, and fulfillment.In this book, Fishbane explores how ancient, medieval, and modern literature and poetry express and transform these primal sensations. Building on his theological project begun in Sacred Attunement and Fragile Finitude, Fishbane offers here a radically new lived hermeneutics that seeks to do nothing less than redefine the relationship between experience and language.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-08-20
Mått:140 x 216 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226842110

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Litteraturteori inom Skönlitteratur
Judendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Michael Fishbane is the Nathan Cummings Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books, including Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology and Fragile Finitude: A Jewish Hermeneutical Theology, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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“At the threshold of speech, Fishbane traces the primacies of experience—those silent stirrings that give rise to expression before words appear. Through a luminous engagement with diverse Jewish literary genres, he explores how the Jewish imagination is rooted in these preverbal depths. In an age of linguistic saturation and spiritual distraction, this book offers a contemplative return to the spaces between feeling and form, self and language—an invitation to dwell with the mysteries that underlie expression and animate our encounters with the world, texts, others, and ourselves.”

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPart I1. Lamentation and Loss: The Poetics of Anguish2. Making “Sense” of Things: Searching High and Low3. Correlations and the Imaginal Between4. The World, Numina, and the Challenge of Theology5. The Inner Point: Spiritual Consciousness and Attentive RegardPart II6. Tears and Testimony: A Literary Meditation7. Poetic Longing, Mysticism, and the Ontology of Language8. “The Between”: Spaces of Meeting, Language, and the Abyss9. Alone-Together: Contemplation and Community as Intersecting Values10. Spiritual Hermeneutics and Appropriation: The Ḥasidic SermonConclusion: Forms of PresenceAcknowledgmentsIndex

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