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Giving Beyond the Gift Giving Beyond the Gift Apophasis and Overcoming Theomania Elliot R. Wolfson Fordham University Press New York 2014 Copyright © 2014 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means— electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other— except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the per sis tence or accuracy of URLs for external or third- party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Fordham University Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Wolfson, Elliot R. Giving beyond the gift : apophasis and overcoming theomania / Elliot R. Wolfson. — First edition. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8232-5570-2 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8232-5571-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Jewish philosophy—20th century. I. Title. B5800.W65 2014 181'.06—dc23 2013034990 Printed in the United States of America 16 15 14 5 4 3 2 1 First edition To the blessed memory of Michael A. Signer Altissima quaeque fl umina minimo sono labi Even as the egomaniac does not live anything directly, whether it be a perception or an aff ection, but refl ects on his perceiving or aff ectionate I and thus misses the truth of the pro cess, thus the theomaniac . . . will not let the gift take full eff ect but refl ects instead on that which gives, and misses both. —Martin Buber, I and Th ou But where does the opening come from and how is it given? What speaks in the “It gives”? —Martin Heidegger, “Th e End of Philosophy and the Task of Th inking” Contents Ac know ledg ments xi Preface xiii Introduction: Imagination and the Prism of the Inapparent 1 1. Via Negativa and the Imaginal Confi guring of God 14 2. Apophatic Vision and Overcoming the Dialogical 34 3. Echo of the Otherwise and the Lure of Th eolatry 90 4. Secrecy of the Gift and the Gift of Secrecy 154 5. Immanent Atheology and the Trace of Transcendence 201 6. Undoing (K)not of Apophaticism: A Heideggerian Afterthought 227 Notes 261 Bibliography 453 Index 525
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