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4.0 out of 5 stars
Thought-provoking stuff for continental philosophers/theorists,
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This review is from: The View from Nowhere: Essays in Literature, Mysticism and Philosophy (Hardcover)
Philip Beitchman has made an important contribution to the study of the impact of Cabala on literature and esotericism, but not many readers will be able to get much out of this text if they don't share his theoretical concerns and training. This is not a good place to start if one is not already up to speed on Cabala and the specific theoretical concerns of the 20th century philosophers that Beitchman studies (his Alchemy of the Word--a brilliant but flawed contribution to the subject--will serve). That all said, these are extremely learned and thought-provoking essays that deal with important literary/mystical topics which also happend to be a worry for philosophical jokers like Baudrillard. Anybody interested in Kabbalistic scholars like Elliott Wolfson who use continental theory to understand Kabbalah and vice versa will probably find much of "hermeneutical" interest here.
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The View from Nowhere: Essays in Literature, Mysticism and Philosophy by Philip Beitchman (Hardcover - April 18, 2001)
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