Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction -- Biographical Introduction -- A Note on Translation -- A Note on the Absence of Gender-Inclusive Language -- The Piety of Secrecy -- Retrieving the Origins of Kabbala -- Recircumcising the Torah -- What Is Hasidism? -- Hasidism and the Hermeneutical Turn -- The Redemptive Foundation of Sin -- Human Perfection and the Fulfillment of Abrahamic Religion -- Reconciliation and Fragmentation -- The Law and Its Discontents -- In and Around the Law -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Annotation "Hasidism on the Margin explores one of the most provocative and radical traditions of Hasidic thought, the school of lzbica and Radzin that Rabbi Gershon Henokh founded in nineteenth-century Poland. Shaul Magid traces the intellectual history of this strand of Judaism from medieval Jewish philosophy through centuries of Kabbalistic texts to the nineteenth century and into the present. He contextualizes the Hasidism of Izbica-Radzin in the larger philosophy and history of religions and provides a model for inquiry into other forms of Hasidism
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-393) and index
