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Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire
- Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism
Engelsk Hardback
Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire
- Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism
Engelsk Hardback

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Drawing on Arabic passages from Ibn Gabirol''s original Fons Vitae text, and highlighting philosophical insights from his Hebrew poetry, Sarah Pessin develops a ''theology of desire'' at the heart of Ibn Gabirol''s eleventh-century cosmo-ontology. She challenges centuries of received scholarship on his work, including his so-called Doctrine of Divine Will. Pessin rejects voluntarist readings of the Fons Vitae as opposing divine emanation. She also emphasizes pseudo-Empedoclean notions of ''divine desire'' and ''grounding element'' alongside Ibn Gabirol''s use of a particularly Neoplatonic method with apophatic (and what she terms ''doubly apophatic'') implications. In this way, Pessin reads claims about matter and God as insights about love, desire, and the receptive, dependent and fragile nature of human beings. Pessin reenvisions the entire spirit of Ibn Gabirol''s philosophy, moving us from a set of doctrines to a fluid inquiry into the nature of God and human being – and the bond between God and human being in desire.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
280
ISBN-13:
9781107032217
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
1107032210
Udg. Dato:
8 jul 2013
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
159mm
Højde:
231mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
8 jul 2013
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