Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire
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Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire

Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism

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Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire

Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism

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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 beings. 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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781107240551
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Figures
  3. 1 Introduction
  4. 2 Text in Context
  5. 3 From Human Being to Discourse on Matter? The Threefold Quest for Wisdom, Goodness, and God - and the Root of Life in Desire
  6. 4 Root Desire and the Pseudo-Empedoclean Grounding Element as Love
  7. 5 From Divine Will to Divine Irda: On the Mistaken Scholarly Rejection of Ibn Gabirols Emanationism
  8. 6 Irdic Unfoldings: Ibn Gabirols Hylomorphic Emanationism and the Neoplatonic Tripart Analysis
  9. 7 Matter Revisited
  10. 8 Neoplatonic Cosmo-Ontology as Apophatic Response and as Prescription for Human Living (Methodological Reappraisal I)
  11. 9 Transcendental Grounding, Mythopoetic and Symbolic Transformation, and the Creation of New Worlds with Words (Methodological Reappraisal II)
  12. 10 Embroidering the Hidden
  13. Appendix Matter as God-Born Cradle of Life: A Sampling of Matter Imagery in Ibn Gabirol's Milieu
  14. Notes
  15. Index