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Beginning from the notion of finite life, Another Finitude takes this staple subject from post-Heideggerian philosophy and opposes it to the onto-theological concept of infinity, represented by an eternal absolute. Although critical of Heidegger and his definition of finitude as 'being-towards-death', this book does not revert to the ontological idea of infinity secured in the sacred image of immortality. But it also does not want to give up o...

In this first ever monograph on Jacques Derrida's 'Toledo confession' - where he portrayed himself as 'sort of a Marrano of the French Catholic culture' - Agata Bielik-Robson shows Derrida's marranismo to be a literary experiment of auto-fiction. She looks at all possible aspects of Derrida's Marrano identification in order to demonstrate that it ultimately constitutes a trope of non-identitarian evasion that permeates all his works: just as M...

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This volume is the first ever collection of essays in philosophy, theology, and intellectual history, devoted to the Lurianic concept of tsimtsum. It contains eighteen texts which demonstrate the historical development of this notion and its evolving meaning: from the Hebrew Bible and the classical midrashic collections, through Kabbalah, Isaac Luria himself, and his disciples, up to modernity.

The purpose of this book is to interpret `Jewish Philosophy¿ in terms of the Marrano phenomenon: as a conscious clinamen of philosophical forms used in order to convey a `secret message¿ which cannot find an open articulation.

The purpose of this book is to interpret `Jewish Philosophy¿ in terms of the Marrano phenomenon: as a conscious clinamen of philosophical forms used in order to convey a `secret message¿ which cannot find an open articulation.

Judaism in Contemporary Thought brings together essays that explore the presence of Jewish tradition in contemporary philosophy.

Explores the many facets of Harold Bloom's critical writings and career. It argues that Bloom draws on a variety of disparate traditions that comprise a dialectical, difficult whole in a constant quarrel with itself. The Saving Lie brings all these "Blooms" together and, despite their own tendencies toward dissociation, lets them speak in unison: in one almost harmonious voice that will clearly utter the principles of a new speculative positio...