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050 00 $aB517$b.P45 2013
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100 1 $aPessin, Sarah.
245 10 $aIbn Gabirol's theology of desire :$bmatter and method in Jewish medieval Neoplatonism /$cSarah Pessin, University of Denver.
264 1 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2013.
300 $axiii, 269 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 233-261) and index.
505 0 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Text in context -- 3. From human being to discourse on matter?: the threefold quest for wisdom, goodness, and God-- and the root of life in desire -- 4. Root desire and the pseudo-Empedoclean grounding element as love -- 5. From Divine Will to Divine Irāda: on the mistaken scholarly rejection of Ibn Gabirol's emanationism -- 6. Irādic Unfoldings: Ibn Gabirol's Hylomorphic Emanationism and the Neoplatonic Tripart Analysis -- 7. Matter revisited -- 8. Neoplatonic cosmo-ontology as apophatic response and as prescription for human living (methodological reappraisal I) -- 9. Transcendental grounding, mythopoetic and symbolic transformation, and the creation of new worlds with words (methodological reappraisal II) -- 10. Embroidering the hidden.
520 $a"Drawing on Arabic passages from Ibn Gabirol's original Fons Vitae text, and highlighting philosophical insights from his Hebrew poetry, Sarah Pessin develops a "Theology of Desire" at the heart of Ibn Gabirol's eleventh-century cosmo-ontology. She challenges centuries of received scholarship on his work, including his so-called Doctrine of Divine Will. Pessin rejects voluntarist readings of the Fons Vitae as opposing divine emanation. She also emphasizes Pseudo-Empedoclean notions of "Divine Desire" and "Grounding Element" alongside Ibn Gabirol's use of a particularly Neoplatonic method with apophatic (and what she terms "doubly apophatic") implications. In this way, Pessin reads claims about matter and God as insights about love, desire, and the receptive, dependent, and fragile nature of human being. Pessin reenvisions the entire spirit of Ibn Gabirol's philosophy, moving us from a set of doctrines to a fluid inquiry into the nature of God and human being - and the bond between God and human being in desire"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aNeoplatonism.
650 0 $aJewish philosophy.
650 0 $aPhilosophy, Medieval.
650 0 $aIslamic philosophy.
600 00 $aIbn Gabirol,$dactive 11th century.$tYanbūʻ al-ḥayāh.
852 00 $bglx$hB517$i.P45 2013