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Kamenetz's newest work continues his exploration of the Jewish tradition down yet another path: that of dreams. Like Jacob, who wrestles with God in the famous biblical dream, a leitmotif in the book, the author of the bestselling The Jew in the Lotus wrestles with personal, religious and cultural history in an ambitious quest to revivify the language of dreams. Kamenetz offers a psychological-cum-mystical version of Susan Sontag's watershed Against Interpretation. Don't interpret dreams, he cautions, as he lays out another way to meet and greet the nightly messages of human brains. Kamenetz offers a post-Jungian, semiarchetypal, image-centered view of dream meaning. He does so in the context of a historical overview of dream interpretation that also locates dreams in the realm of Jewish mysticism. Narratives of encounters with spiritual teachers are also part of this amalgam of a book that seems to have changed shape over time and through personal discovery. This is a disarming, hard-to-summarize, well-written and idiosyncratic book that will find a distinct audience that appreciates its reflective quirkiness. Readers who have enjoyed Kamenetz's other journeys through Judaism will follow with surprise and pleasure his next steps along a winding spiritual path. (Oct.)
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"A profound, affecting and deeply rewarding book from a charismatic teacher." -- Jonathan Kirsch, author of A History of the End of the World
"An enchanting and provocative book exploring a subject with profound implications about our very humanity." -- Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize Winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
"Kamenetz has written a manual for living the dream of life through the real dreams of an individual." -- Andrei Codrescu, NPR Commentator
"Kamenetz’s fierce honesty and unflinching self-revelation inspire both admiration and awe [...] [A] smart, funny, and revolutionary book..." -- Susan Larson, New Orleans Times-Picayune
"Rodger Kamenetz writes in this fascinating book that words, too many words, stand between us and our dreams." -- Los Angeles Times
"The History of Last Night’s Dream is at once affable and audacious; Kamenetz is a reliable narrator in unreliable territory.... Kamenetz’s poetic eye is alive and well." -- The Forward
"[A] powerful and beautifully written book." -- Stephen J. Dubner, bestelling co-author of Freakanomics --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
See all Editorial Reviews
Kamenetz's newest work continues his exploration of the Jewish tradition down yet another path: that of dreams. Like Jacob, who wrestles with God in the famous biblical dream, a leitmotif in the book, the author of the bestselling The Jew in the Lotus wrestles with personal, religious and cultural history in an ambitious quest to revivify the language of dreams. Kamenetz offers a psychological-cum-mystical version of Susan Sontag's watershed Against Interpretation. Don't interpret dreams, he cautions, as he lays out another way to meet and greet the nightly messages of human brains. Kamenetz offers a post-Jungian, semiarchetypal, image-centered view of dream meaning. He does so in the context of a historical overview of dream interpretation that also locates dreams in the realm of Jewish mysticism. Narratives of encounters with spiritual teachers are also part of this amalgam of a book that seems to have changed shape over time and through personal discovery. This is a disarming, hard-to-summarize, well-written and idiosyncratic book that will find a distinct audience that appreciates its reflective quirkiness. Readers who have enjoyed Kamenetz's other journeys through Judaism will follow with surprise and pleasure his next steps along a winding spiritual path. (Oct.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review
"A profound, affecting and deeply rewarding book from a charismatic teacher." -- Jonathan Kirsch, author of A History of the End of the World
"An enchanting and provocative book exploring a subject with profound implications about our very humanity." -- Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize Winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
"Kamenetz has written a manual for living the dream of life through the real dreams of an individual." -- Andrei Codrescu, NPR Commentator
"Kamenetz’s fierce honesty and unflinching self-revelation inspire both admiration and awe [...] [A] smart, funny, and revolutionary book..." -- Susan Larson, New Orleans Times-Picayune
"Rodger Kamenetz writes in this fascinating book that words, too many words, stand between us and our dreams." -- Los Angeles Times
"The History of Last Night’s Dream is at once affable and audacious; Kamenetz is a reliable narrator in unreliable territory.... Kamenetz’s poetic eye is alive and well." -- The Forward
"[A] powerful and beautifully written book." -- Stephen J. Dubner, bestelling co-author of Freakanomics --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
See all Editorial Reviews
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