Old Worlds, New Mirrors by Moshe Idel - 9780812222104

Old Worlds, New MirrorsOn Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought\nAuthor(s): Moshe Idel\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812222104, 978-0812222104\nSynopsis\nThere 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 Momigliano and Paul Celan, Abraham Heschel and George Steiner to reflect on their relationships to Judaism in a cosmopolitan, mostly European, context.\n\n Idel-himself one of the world's most eminent scholars of Jewish mysticism-focuses in particular on the mystical aspects of hi.