Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire: Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism

by Sarah Pessin

The first full-length treatment of Ibn Gabirol's philosophy in English, this study reinvents the medieval author of the Fountain of Life or Fons Vitae. Developing Ibn Gabirol's vision in terms of a 'theology of desire', it rescues the voice of the eleventh-century Jewish poet-philosopher from centuries of misreadings and sets out to examine the role of love, desire and ethical self-transformation in medieval Jewish Neoplatonism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107032210
• ISBN13: 9781107032217
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"