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020			_a9781139424752 (ebook)
020			_z9781107032217 (hardback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aB517 _b.P45 2013
082	0	0	_a181/.06 _223
100	1		_aPessin, Sarah, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aIbn Gabirol's Theology of Desire : _bMatter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism / _cSarah Pessin.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (280 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aDrawing 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.
650		0	_aNeoplatonism
650		0	_aJewish philosophy
650		0	_aPhilosophy, Medieval
650		0	_aIslamic philosophy
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107032217
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139424752
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37682 _d37682