Suffering Time: Philosophical, Kabbalistic, and Hasidic Reflections on Temporality

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No one theory of time is pursued in the essays of this volume, but a major theme that threads them together is Wolfsons signature idea of the timeswerve as a linear circularity or a circular linearity, expressions that are meant to avoid the conventional split between the two temporal modalities of the line and the circle. Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Preface Chapter 1 Timemask and the Telling of Time in the Time of Telling 1 Time’s Linear Circle and Reiteration of the Inimitable Chapter 2 Linear Circularity/(A)Temporal Poetics 1 Encircled Line: Mythologic of Hebraic Time 2 Alef/Mem/Tau: Time, Truth, Death 3 Timeless Time and the Rotation of the Sefirot 4 Temporal Ontology/Eventful Grammar 5 In this Moment: Engendering Time and Feminine Indeterminacy 6 Phallic Fecundity and the Spatio-Temporal Enshrining of Prayer 7 Day That Is Entirely Long: Temporal In-difference Chapter 3 Kenotic Overflow, Temporal Transcendence, and Angelic Embodiment in the Kabbalah of Abraham Abulafia 1 Tempus Discretum and the Eternal Return of What Has Never Been 2 Intellectual Conjunction and the Mechanics of Divine Influence 3 In the Blink of an Eye: Time as the Mysterium Coniunctionis 4 Angelomorphic Transformation and Monopsychic Integration 5 Kenotic Expansion, Temporal Delimitation, and Becoming the Nothing-That-Is-All 6 Life of the World to Come: yhwh and the Compresence of Time Chapter 4 Retroactive Not Yet: Linear Circularity and Kabbalistic Temporality 1 Alef and the Immeasurability of Eternal Time 2 Imagining Time and the Givenness of the Nongiven 3 Return of the Altogether Otherwise 4 Ṣimṣum and the Replication of Difference Chapter 5 Suffering Time: Maharal’s Influence on Ḥasidic Perspectives on Temporality 1 Time of Suffering in the Suffering of Time 2 Time out of Time: Eternality and the Temporal Transcendence of Temporality 3 Infinity and the Eternity of Time in Ḥasidic Sources 4 Timefully Retrieving Instant beyond Time: Ascesis and Corporeal Worship Chapter 6 The Cut That Binds: Time, Memory, and the Ascetic Impulse in Naḥman of Bratslav 1 Memory, Mindfulness, and Masculinity 2 Returning Beyond: Recollecting the Future in Anticipation of the Past 3 Perfection of Memory, Rectification of the Phallus, and the Conquest of the Eros of Time 4 Ascetic Renunciation and the Eschatological Triumph over Time Chapter 7 Malkhut de-Ein Sof and the Temporalization of Space: Ṣimṣum in the Teaching of Solomon ben Ḥayyim Eliashiv 1 Time as the Measure of the Immeasurable 2 Temporal Eternity and the Infinite Finitude 3 Kingship of the Infinite and the Demarcation of the Not-Other as Other 4 Sha‘ashu‘a and the Autoerotic Differentiating Indifference 5 Ṣimṣum and the Literalization of the Figurative in the Figuralization of the Literal 6 Temporalization of the Spatial: Timespace as the Fourth Dimension Chapter 8 Not Yet Now: Speaking of the End and the End of Speaking 1 Death and the Surplus of Not Yet 2 Waiting for the End of Waiting 3 Messianic Time, Futural Remembering, and Historical Disjointedness 4 Utopian Hope and Disenchantment of the Image 5 Not Yet Now and the Nothingness of the Future Bibliography Index Blank Page