Deconstructing language with Abulafia and Levinas

What is it about?

This chapter offers a description of Abraham Abulafia's Kabbalah of manipulating the Divine Name and reads it through the lens of Emmanuel Levinas. Abulafia’s prophetic method of returning to the source by breaking names into their letters will demonstrate a concealed return to the earlier theme of hypostatic nominalism, as the nexus of concepts including Name, Messiah, and Metatron become eschatologically unified. Interpreting his thought in the light of Levinas and Lacan will demonstrate the essential nature of the Name not only in identity and otherhood but in providing the gateway to a structural (metaphysical) understanding of the cosmos.

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