Negative theology is the attempt to describe God by speaking in terms of what God is not. Historical affinities between Jewish modernity and negative theology indicate new directions for thematizing the modern Jewish experience. Questions such as, What are the limits of Jewish modernity in terms of negativity? Has this creative tradition exhausted itself? and How might Jewish thought go forward? anchor these original essays. Taken together they explore the roots and legacies of negative theology in Jewish thought, examine the viability and limits of theorizing the modern Jewish experience as negative theology, and offer a fresh perspective from which to approach Jewish intellectual history.

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Fagenblat, Michael; Bielik-Robson, Agata; Dobbs-Weinstein, Idit; Fagenblat, Michael; Goodman, Lenn E.; Jacobson-Maisels, James; Kavka, Martin; Lebens, Samuel; Lipszyc, Adam; Novak, David; Pessin, Sarah; Seeskin, Kenneth; Shatz, David; Valabregue-Perry, Sandra; Weiss, Tzahi; Wolfson, Elliot R.; Wolosky, Shiva

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Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2017

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Cover 1
Contents 6
Introduction. Delineations: Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity 10
1. The Limits of Negative Theology in Medieval Kabbalah and Jewish Philosophy 39
2. “No One Can See My Face and Live” 57
3. What Is Positive in Negative Theology? 71
4. Negative Theology as Illuminating and/or Therapeutic Falsehood 94
5. “My Aid Will Come from Nothingness”: The Practice of Negative Theology in Maggid Devarav Le-Ya’akov 118
6. Secrecy, Apophasis, and Atheistic Faith in the Teachings of Rav Kook 140
7. Two Types of Negative Theology; Or, What Does Negative Theology Negate? 170
8. Khoric Apophasis: Matter and Messianicity in Islamo-Judeo-Greek Neoplatonism 189
9. Negative Dialectics, Sive Secular Jewish Theology: Adorno on the Prohibition on Graven Images and Imperative of Historical Critique 207
10. The Passion of Nonknowing True Oneness: Derrida and Maimonides on God—and Jew, Perhaps 222
11. Jewish Negative Theology: A Phenomenological Perspective 247
12. Mysteries of the Promise: Negative Theology in Benjamin and Scholem 267
13. Can Halakhah Survive Negative Theology? 291
14. The Stylus and the Almond: Negative Literary Theologies in Paul Celan 313
15. “Gods Change”: The Deconstruction of the Transcendent God and the Reconstruction of the Mythical Godhead in Yehuda Amichai’s Open Closed Open 332
16. The Politics of Negative Theology 344
Contributors 366
Index 370
A 370
B 371
C 372
D 373
E 373
F 374
G 374
H 375
I 375
J 376
K 376
L 377
M 378
N 379
O 380
P 380
Q 381
R 381
S 381
T 383
U 383
V 384
W 384
X 384
Y 384
Z 384
Citation Index 386

"Negative theology is the attempt to describe God by speaking in terms of what God is not. Historical affinities between Jewish modernity and negative theology indicate new directions for thematizing the modern Jewish experience. Questions such as, What are the limits of Jewish modernity in terms of negativity? Has this creative tradition exhausted itself? and How might Jewish thought go forward? anchor these original essays. Taken together they explore the roots and legacies of negative theology in Jewish thought, examine the viability and limits of theorizing the modern Jewish experience as negative theology, and offer a fresh perspective from which to approach Jewish intellectual history"--Back cover

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