RT Article
T1 Scholarship and the Critique of Tradition: Elliot R. Wolfson, Heidegger and Kabbalah: Hidden Gnosis and the Path of Poiēsis
JF Journal of religious ethics
VO 48
IS 4
SP 731
OP 740
A1 Novak, David 1941-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1744708142
AB This review essay of Wolfson’s recent Heidegger and Kabbalah both praises Wolfson for departing from the historicism of his earliest writings on the kabbalistic tradition, and also critiques him for being unable to ground adequately his critique of the kabbalistic tradition’s ethnocentrism. Resolving the tension in this authorial position, stretched between commitment to a particular tradition and the liberalism of much of contemporary academia, entails acknowledging the limitations of scholarship in religious ethics.
K1 Heidegger
K1 Judaism
K1 Kabbalah
K1 Ethnocentrism
K1 Tradition
DO 10.1111/jore.12330