Elliot Wolfson.
Heidegger and Kabbalah: Hidden Gnosis and the Path of Poiēsis. Indiana University Press, 2020. 453 pages. (Paperback $60)
Wolfson’s new book
Heidegger and Kabbalah is arguably the
magnum opus of his long and productive career. It stands as a landmark study in Judaism
and philosophy. In the realm of Jewish philosophy, I dare say it is the most important study on or about Judaism produced in our era. It is also a major contribution to the study of Martin Heidegger and the Humanities more generally. This work contributes to how we read traditions of inquiry to both critique and then reconstruct moral possibilities and excavate metaphysical hazards. This book will join a very narrow canon of major Jewish philosophical works in the twentieth and twenty-first century including Hermann Cohen’s