Primacies: Experience, Expression, and the Jewish Imagination - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226842110ISBN-10:226842118UPC:9780226842110Book Category:Religion, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Judaism, Philosophy, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:TheologySize:8.60 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCYV3DEHTE
Primacies: Experience, Expression, and the Jewish Imagination
A powerful exploration of how literature expresses and transforms our earliest preverbal experiences. Primacies begins with the assertion that our earliest preverbal experiences are accompanied by a primary language--a universal expression of tears, cries, and laughter offered long before we learn our distinctive, ordinary languages. For Michael Fishbane, these "primacies" release the raw...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226842110ISBN-10:226842118UPC:9780226842110Book Category:Religion, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Judaism, Philosophy, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:TheologySize:8.60 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCYV3DEHTE
Michael Fishbane is the Nathan Cummings Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books, including Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology and Fragile Finitude: A Jewish Hermeneutical Theology, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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