Kabbalah and Literature

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Preliminary Remarks
- Kabbalah in Fiction
- Literature, Mimesis, Fictional Genealogies
- Scholem's "Metaphysics" of Kabbalah and Literature
- Parsing the Kabbalah in Modern Fiction
Part 1. The Other's Path and the Redemption of Ben Aher
1. Jacob Frank, "Heretic of Kabbalah"
2. Heretics and Heresies of Innovation
3. Heinrich Heine, Poet/Prophet of the "Innovated Text"
4. Kafka, Prophet of Failure
5. Being and Nothingness: The Matter of Golems
Part 2. Letter Phenomenologies of Modernist Kabbalahs
6. Golems of Text and Bruno Schulz's "Interminable Aggadot"
7. The "Absolute Object" in Argentino's Basement
8. Lost Letters
9. "There Must Be Other Songs beyond Mankind"
Conclusion: Literature's Messianic Moments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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