3 papers in the library · publishing 2013-2015
University of Chicago Press eBooks 2015 Jonathan Garb
This opening chapter follows and critiques the disappearance of the soul in modern philosophy, while calling attention to its continued presence in literature and popular culture and its remarkable revival in recent decades. Especial attention is given to the school of archetypal psychology inaugurated by James Hillman. Dialogue with this school enables a critical engagement with the...
University of Chicago Press eBooks March 29, 2013 Martina Urban
Buber regards hitlahavut as “the primal principle [Urprinzip] of Hasidic life.” Ekstase, Wonne (“bliss”), and Inbrunst (“fervor,” “ardor”) are synonyms employed to translate the term hitlahavut. Indeed, the words derived from the Hebrew root l-h-v (burning, flame, to be inflamed) evoke several of the central features attributed to Hasidic mysticism. Although hitlahavut “is the burning,” it is...
University of Chicago Press eBooks March 29, 2013 Jonathan Garb
This chapter argues that shamanic trance often seems in contexts of a markedly nomian nature. The Hasidic movement can be shown as a prime example of the intimate link between trance experience and nomian practice. The placement of trance within a graduated path explains the prevalence of the rabbinic ladder of ethical and nomian progression in Kabbalistic texts on trance. The nomian practice...