Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought
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In Old Worlds, New Mirrors Moshe Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig, Arnaldo Momigliano and Paul Celan, Abraham Heschel and George Steiner to reflect on their relationships to Judaism in a cosmopolitan, mostly European, context.
Introduction 1I Intellectual Conceptualizations of Judaism1 Arnaldo Momigliano and Gershom Scholem on Jewish History and Tradition 172 Eric Voegelin's Israel and Revelation 313 George Steiner: A Prophet of Abstraction 52II Scholem's Conceptualizations of Kabbalah4 The Function of Symbols in Gershom Scholem 835 Hieroglyphs, Mysteries, Keys: Scholem Between Molitor and Kafka 1096 Subversive Catalysts: Gnosticism and Messianism in Scholem's View of Jewish Mysticism 133III Kabbalah in Some Twentieth-Century Thinkers7 Franz Rosenzweig and Kabbalah 1598 Abraham Abulafia, Gershom Scholem, and Walter Benjamin on Language 1689 Jacques Derrida and Kabbalistic Sources 17610 Paul Celan's "Psalm": A Revelation Toward Naught 193IV Understanding Hasidism11 Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem on Hasidism 20512 Abraham Heschel on Mysticism and Hasidism 21713 White Letters: From R. Levi Isaac of Berdichev to Postmodern Hermeneutics 234List of Abbreviations and Sources 249Notes 255Index 311Acknowledgments 325
