Book contents
- Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire
- Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- 1 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 DivineIrāda: On the Mistaken Scholarly Rejection of Ibn Gabirol's Emanationism
- 6 IrādicUnfoldings: 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
- Appendix Matter as God-Born Cradle of Life: A Sampling of Matter Imagery in Ibn Gabirol's Milieu
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire
Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2013
- Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire
- Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- 1 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 DivineIrāda: On the Mistaken Scholarly Rejection of Ibn Gabirol's Emanationism
- 6 IrādicUnfoldings: 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
- Appendix Matter as God-Born Cradle of Life: A Sampling of Matter Imagery in Ibn Gabirol's Milieu
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Ibn Gabirol's Theology of DesireMatter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism, pp. iiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013