Gateway to a New Kabbalah: Jewish Mysticism, Postmodernism, and Contemporary Theology
Kabbalah and Postmodernism: A Dialogue challenges certain long-held philosophical and theological beliefs, including the assumptions that the insights of mystical experience are unavailable to human reason and inexpressible in linguistic terms, that the God of traditional theology either does or does not exist, that "systematic theology" must provide a univocal account of God, man, and the world, that "truth" is "absolute" and not continually subject to radical revision, and that the truth of...
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Kabbalah and Postmodernism: A Dialogue challenges certain long-held philosophical and theological beliefs, including the assumptions that the insights of mystical experience are unavailable to human reason and inexpressible in linguistic terms, that the God of traditional theology either does or does not exist, that "systematic theology" must provide a univocal account of God, man, and the world, that "truth" is "absolute" and not continually subject to radical revision, and that the truth of propositions in philosophy and theology excludes the truth of their opposites and contradictions. Readers of Kabbalah and Postmodernism will be exposed to a comprehensive mode of theological thought that incorporates the very doubts that would otherwise lead one to challenge the possibility of theology and religion, and which both preserves the riches of the Jewish tradition but extends beyond Judaism to a non-dogmatic universal philosophy and ethic.
Introduction 11 Postmodernism and Jewish mysticism 192 Derrida and Jewish mysticism 483 Tzimtzum and Differance 654 The Shevirah and deconstruction 915 A-systematic theology 1046 The doctrine of Coincidentia Oppositorum in Jewish mysticism 1297 The Torah of the tree of life 1588 Beyond the bounds of language 1809 Creation Ex Nihilo and the Impossible Messiah 20510 Kabbalah, forms of consciousness and the structure of language 230Notes 265Bibliography 315Index 323
