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Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah

By: Jonathan Garb

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Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah

By: Jonathan Garb

Theory of shamanism, trance, and modern Kabbalah -- The shamanic process: descent and fiery transformations -- Empowerment through trance -- Shamanic Hasidism -- Hasidic trance -- Trance and the nomian.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226282074

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9780226282077

Chosen Will Become Herds

Studies in Twentieth-Century Kabbalah

By: Jonathan Garb

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Chosen Will Become Herds

Studies in Twentieth-Century Kabbalah

By: Jonathan Garb

A noted expert on Kabbalah, Jonathan Garb places the 'kabbalistic Renaissance' within the global context of the rise of other forms of spirituality, including Sufism and Tibetan Buddhism.

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231

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Yale University Press

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0300155042

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9780300155044

Yearnings of the Soul

Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah

By: Jonathan Garb

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Yearnings of the Soul

Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah

By: Jonathan Garb

Jonathan Garb's "Yearnings of the Soul: Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah" is an original, path-breaking study of the renderings of the "heart and soul" in the works of major, minor, and obscure but important figures of modern Kabbalah. Garb has unearthed a treasure-trove of neglected figures and texts, bringing into dialogue their views on heart and soul with those found in other religious and secular authorities. There is no other study that comes close to the territory Garb covers or, for that matter, provides the historical and cultural context necessary for understanding the rise of such psychological renderings in the works of the modern Kabbalists. His analysis shows that any attempt to essentialize the multiple and varied understandings of heart and soul in Jewish mysticism is mistaken. Analyzing text and figure in context on a case-by-case basis Garb is able to provide comparison without being reductive. This is an invaluable contribution to the discipline that cements Garb as the leading scholar of modern Kabbalah.

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308

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University of Chicago Press

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022629580X

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9780226295800

Does God Doubt? R. Gershon Henoch Leiner’s Thought in Its Contexts

By: Jonathan Garb

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Does God Doubt? R. Gershon Henoch Leiner’s Thought in Its Contexts

By: Jonathan Garb

Does God Doubt? shows that Rabbi Gershon Henoch Leiner of Radzin considered God to be revealed as doubt. Thus, according to this profound and important nineteenth-century Hasidic leader, doubt is an essential aspect of the human condition, and especially of religious life. His position is shown to be remarkably bold and unique compared to kabbalistic writing, and especially to the Hasidic worlds to which he belonged. At the same time, the roots of his thought are located in earlier discussions of doubt as one of the highest parts of the divine world. Doubt about, in, and of God is part of the Hasidic contribution to modernity.

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BRILL

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9004694234

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9789004694231

The Jewish Decadence

Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity

By: Jonathan Freedman

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The Jewish Decadence

Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity

By: Jonathan Freedman

Freedman's final book is a tour de force that examines the history of Jewish involvement in the decadent art movement. While decadent art's most notorious practitioner was Oscar Wilde, as a movement it spread through western Europe and even included a few adherents in Russia. Jewish writers and artists such as Catulle Mèndes, Gustav Kahn, and Simeon Solomon would portray non-stereotyped characters and produce highly influential works. After decadent art's peak, Walter Benjamin, Marcel Proust, and Sigmund Freud would take up the idiom of decadence and carry it with them during the cultural transition to modernism. Freedman expertly and elegantly takes readers through this transition and beyond, showing the lineage of Jewish decadence all the way through to the end of the twentieth century"--

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University of Chicago Press

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022658108X

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9780226581088

Humour in Old English Literature

Communities of Laughter in Early Medieval England

By: Jonathan Wilcox

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Humour in Old English Literature

Communities of Laughter in Early Medieval England

By: Jonathan Wilcox

Humour in Old English Literature deploys modern theories of humour to explore the style and content of surviving writing from early medieval England. The book analyses Old English riddles, wisdom literature, runic writing, the deployment of rhymes, and humour in heroic poetry, hagiography, and romance. Drawing on a fine-tuned understanding of literary technique, the book presents a revisionist view of Old English literature, partly by reclaiming often-neglected texts and partly by uncovering ironies and embarrassments within well-established works, including Beowulf. Most surprisingly, Jonathan Wilcox engages the large body of didactic literature, pinpointing humour in two anonymous homilies along with extensive use in saints’ lives. Each chapter ends by revealing a different audience that would have shared in the laughter. Wilcox suggests that the humour of Old English literature has been scantily covered in past scholarship because modern readers expect a dour and serious corpus. Humour in Old English Literature aims to break that cycle by highlighting works and moments that are as entertaining now as they were then.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487545703

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9781487545703

Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism

By: Jonathan Judaken

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Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism

By: Jonathan Judaken

Despite its persistence and viciousness, anti-Semitism remains undertheorized in comparison with other forms of racism and discrimination. How should anti-Semitism be defined? What are its underlying causes? Why do anti-Semites target Jews? In what ways has Judeophobia changed over time? What are the continuities and disconnects between medieval anti-Judaism and the Holocaust? How does criticism of the state of Israel relate to anti-Semitism? And how can social theory illuminate the upsurge in attacks on Jews today? Considering these questions and many more, this book is at once a philosophical reflection on key problems in the analysis of anti-Semitism and a history of its leading theories and theorists. Jonathan Judaken explores the methodological and conceptual issues that have vexed the study of Judeophobia and calls for a reconsideration of the definitions, categories, and narratives that underpin overarching explanations. He traces how a range of thinkers have wrestled with these challenges, examining the theories of Jean-Paul Sartre, the Frankfurt School, Hannah Arendt, and Jean-François Lyotard, alongside the works of sociologists Talcott Parsons and Zygmunt Bauman and historians Léon Poliakov and George Mosse. Judaken argues against claims about the uniqueness of Judeophobia, demonstrating how it is entangled with other racisms: Islamophobia, Negrophobia, and xenophobia. Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism not only urges readers to question how they think about Judeophobia but also draws them into conversation with a range of leading thinkers whose insights are sorely needed in this perilous moment.

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Columbia University Press

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0231559631

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9780231559638

Innocents Abroad

American Teachers in the American Century

By: Jonathan Zimmerman

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Innocents Abroad

American Teachers in the American Century

By: Jonathan Zimmerman

Drawing on extensive archives of teachers’ letters and accounts, Zimmerman’s narrative explores the teachers’ shifting attitudes about their country and themselves, in a world that was more unexpected than they could have imagined.

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Harvard University Press

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0674023617

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9780674023611

Poetic Injustice

A True Story of Forbidden Love

By: Jonathan Sure

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Poetic Injustice

A True Story of Forbidden Love

By: Jonathan Sure

A true story with names and details altered, Poetic Injustice is a tale of romance between a therapist and his patient resulting in profound insights that challenge almost all objectives of modern day therapy. Jonathan Sure a seasoned therapist intuitively aware of projected feelings in transference and counter-transference, is nonetheless lured into an intimate relationship with his patient, Kulai and finds himself drowning in an abyss of confusion, submission, and obsession. Feeling he is on the verge of healing a very complex case he goes beyond the boundaries of his profession in an attempt to penetrate and heal the soul of Kulai. But Mr. Sure realizes he is missing something, something he intuitively knows may be very important to this case. Does Kulai, a seemingly innocence patient, have a dark history that he is unaware of? Or has Mr. Sure lost touch with his own alter ego? There is an unexpected ending to this drama, and Mr. Sure comes to realize the true nature behind all human behavior as well as the key to healing. Mr. Sure explains his new found knowledge and teaches very simple techniques to the reader, which he believes hold the keys to healing and which he also believes have evaded almost all therapists in the field.

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Balboa Press

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9798765226667

A Critical Introduction to Fictionalism

By: Frederick Kroon,Jonathan McKeown-Green,Stuart Brock

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A Critical Introduction to Fictionalism

By: Frederick Kroon,Jonathan McKeown-Green,Stuart Brock

A Critical Introduction to Fictionalism provides a clear and comprehensive understanding of an important alternative to realism. Drawing on questions from ethics, the philosophy of religion, art, mathematics, logic and science, this is a complete exploration of how fictionalism contrasts with other non-realist doctrines and motivates influential fictionalist treatments across a range of philosophical issues. Defending and criticizing influential as well as emerging fictionalist approaches, this accessible overview discuses physical objects, universals, God, moral properties, numbers and other fictional entities. Where possible it draws general lessons about the conditions under which a fictionalist treatment of a class of items is plausible. Distinguishing fictionalism from other views about the existence of items, it explains the central features of this key metaphysical topic. Featuring a historical survey, definitions of key terms, characterisations of important subdivisions, objections and problems for fictionalism, and contemporary fictionalist treatments of several issues, A Critical Introduction to Fictionalism is a valuable resource for students of metaphysics as well as students of philosophical methodology. It is the only book of its kind.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472513940

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9781472513946

Book's by Jonathan Garb

Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah

Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah

Chosen Will Become Herds

Chosen Will Become Herds

Yearnings of the Soul

Yearnings of the Soul

Does God Doubt? R. Gershon Henoch Leiner’s Thought in Its Contexts

Does God Doubt? R. Gershon Henoch Leiner’s Thought in Its Contexts

The Jewish Decadence

The Jewish Decadence

Humour in Old English Literature

Humour in Old English Literature

Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism

Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism

Innocents Abroad

Innocents Abroad

Poetic Injustice

Poetic Injustice

A Critical Introduction to Fictionalism

A Critical Introduction to Fictionalism

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