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Auteur(s) : Pessin, Sarah  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Ibn Gabirol's theology of desire [Texte imprimé] : matter and method in Jewish medieval neoplatonism / Sarah Pessin...

Publication : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013

Description matérielle : xiii, 269 pages ; 24 cm

Comprend : 1. Introduction ; 2. Text in context ; 3. From human being to discourse on matter?: the threefold quest for wisdom, goodness, and God ; and the root of life in desire ; 4. Root desire and the pseudo-Empedoclean grounding element as love ; 5. From Divine Will to Divine Irāda: on the mistaken scholarly rejection of Ibn Gabirol's emanationism ; 6. Irādic Unfoldings: Ibn Gabirol's Hylomorphic Emanationism and the Neoplatonic Tripart Analysis ; 7. Matter revisited ; 8. Neoplatonic cosmo-ontology as apophatic response and as prescription for human living (methodological reappraisal I) ; 9. Transcendental grounding, mythopoetic and symbolic transformation, and the creation of new worlds with words (methodological reappraisal II) ; 10. Embroidering the hidden.

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-261) and index
"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 being. 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"

Sujet(s) : Salomon ben Yehudah ibn Gabirol (1021?-1070?) -- Critique et interprétation  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Néoplatonisme -- Moyen âge  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Philosophie juive -- Influence grecque  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107032217 (hardback). - ISBN 1107032210 (hardback) (rel.)

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