Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought

by Moshe Idel

Book Overview

There emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a new Jewish elite, notes Moshe Idel, no longer made up of prophets, priests, kings, or rabbis but of intellectuals and academicians working in secular universities or writing for an audience not defined by any one set of religious beliefs. In Old Worlds, New Mirrors Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig, Arnaldo...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812222105
• ISBN13: 9780812222104
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"