Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity
The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904
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- Utgivningsdatum:2021-08-26
- Mått:155 x 234 x 27 mm
- Vikt:963 g
- Format:Inbunden
- Språk:Engelska
- Antal sidor:410
- Förlag:Academic Studies Press
- ISBN:9781618119537
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Yehudah Mirsky is Full Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. A former US State Department official, he has written widely on religion, politics, and culture for the New York Times, the Economist, the Washington Post, and many other publications. He won the Jewish Book Council's Sami Rohr Choice Award for his earlier work, Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution.
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“Mirsky teaches us how to read afresh a much-discussed writer and how to navigate a vast and at times bewildering corpus. This sterling intellectual biography will become the definitive work on the making of one of the greatest modern mystics, introducing and translating a wealth of lesser known or newly printed sources. Mirsky’s exquisitely rich reading exposes the full range and complexity of the manifold contexts (medieval, Lithuanian, Zionist, theosophical, legal, and ethical) from which his hero emerged, without in any way obscuring his brilliant originality, as he invites us to viewings of Kook as an aspiring prophet, yet also as a master of exegesis and mourning poet. To not only hold all of these tensions, but also render them lucid to readers of all backgrounds, is nothing less than a feat of dedicated reflection and high-powered analysis. This is historical writing in its most eloquent, passionate and engaged form.”—Jonathan Garb, author of A History of Kabbalah from the Early Modern Period to the Present Day
Innehållsförteckning
- Introduction The Work in Brief Precis Mapping Rav Kook Many Editorial Hands Academic Approaches The Missing Early Decades in Rav Kook'sCorpus Towards Expressivism and the Subject Rav Kook and the Medieval PhilosophicalTradition The Early Writings Self-Cultivation, Philosophical Ethics,Mussar Chapter One: Childhood and Early Years: BetweenMitnagdism, Hasidism and Haskalah 42 Rabbinic Humanism and Haskalah Geographic and Cultural Background Family Backgound Social Changes: Haskalah's Shift fromEnlightenment to Radicalism Rabbinic Maskilim Childhood and Early Education Studies in Lyutsin and Smorgon andEngagement with Haskalah Betrothal and Aderet Avraham Kook Goes to Volozhin Marriage, Poverty and First RabbinicPost Literary Debut 'Ittur SofrimLoss Chapter 2: All in the Mind: The Writings ofthe Zeimel PeriodThe Small-Town Rabbinate Talmudic Commentary and a Sage'sDiscontents Halakhic Writings and a Touch ofPhilosophy Hevesh Pe'er The Primacy of the Mind in Hevesh Pe'er Midbar Shur Moshe Hayim Luzzatto Midbar Shur and the Pursuit ofPerfection, Jewish and Universal An Elegy for His First Wife Conclusion Chapter 3: Boisk at the Crossroads of Mussarand TiqqunUnease in Zeimel and the Influence ofEliasberg Boisk Developments in Yeshiva Culture and theMussar Movement The Turn to Interiority as a Defining Themeof this Period: The Self and Tiqqun Lithuanian KabbalahPinkasim 15 & 16"The Rustlings of My Heart": RavKook and B.M. Levin Conclusion Chapter 4: 'Eyn Ayah: Intellect,Imagination, Self-Expression, Prophecy'Eyn Ayah and Modernity's ExpressivistTurn The Work: Genre, Method and the Study ofAggadah in Rabbinic Circles Two Introductions to the Work Self-Perfection Intellect, Imagination, Feeling Perfection of the Individual and the Wholeand the Internalization of Kabbalah Strategies of Containment The Renewal of Prophecy and the Mission ofthe Artist The Emergence of Dialectic The Problem of Self-Love The Study of Aggadah and SpiritualIndividualism Concluding Remarks on Expressivism andSubjectivity Chapter 5: The Turn Towards Nationalism:Between Ideology and Utopia, or, Ethics and Eschatology Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe Early Mentions of Nationalism and Hints ofApocalypse First Responses to the Zionist Movement First Response to Orthodox Anti-Zionism Ha-Peles The First Essay: Israel's UniversalMission Interlude: Creation of the Mizrahi The Second Essay: Mobilizing Literature The Third Essay: Ethics, History andEschatology Alexandrov's Response: Rav Kook and AhadHa-Am 'Eyn Ayah Passages on History andEschatology Assessing the Essays: Ideology andUtopia Chapter 6:’The New Guide of the Perplexed’ 'TheLast in Boisk': Making Sense of Heresy en Route to Zion To Jaffa and Palestine The Second Aliyah ‘The New Guide of the Perplexed’'The Last in Boisk': Heresy, Nietzsche,Apocalypse The Journal Messiah ben Joseph Expressivism and the Song of Songs Heresy and Eschatology Ethics, Jesus, Nietzsche, Qelippah Working with Heresy, Reworking Torah Studyand Theology Leaving Boisk Conclusion Transformations in the Land of Israel Seven Shifts: From To-Down to Bottom-Up Philosophy, Mysticism, Experience Implications for the Study of Religion:Theology as Autobiography Implications for Rav Kook StudiesBerdyczewsky and Rav Kook: Between Ruptureand Dialectic
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