Sarah Pessin: 1 book
Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire
Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
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...
