TY - BOOK AU - Lemberger,Dorit AU - Levin,Edward TI - A Red Rose in the Dark: Self-Constitution through the Poetic Language of Zelda, Amichai, Kosman, and Adaf T2 - Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah SN - 9781618114938 PY - 2016///] CY - Boston, MA : PB - Academic Studies Press, KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Chapter 1. Poetic Grammar: Three Aspects of Aesthetic Judgment --; Chapter 2. Dialogical Grammar: Variations of Dialogue in Wittgenstein's Methodology as Ways of Self-Constitution --; Chapter 3. Self-Constitution through Mystical Grammar: The Urge and Its Expressions --; Chapter 4. Zelda: The Complex Self-Constitution of the Believer --; Chapter 5. Yehuda Amichai: Amen and Love --; Chapter 6. Admiel Kosman: We Reached God --; Chapter 7. Shimon Adaf: Poetry as Philosophy and Philosophy as Poetry --; Chapter 8. Summation: "As if I Could Read the Darkness" --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - How can we characterize the uniqueness of poetic language? How can we describe the evasive enchantment of the paradox that is created by both universal and autobiographical expression? How does ordinary language function aesthetically while motivating the reader to acknowledge himself and to reveal how far his thinking belongs to the present, the future, or the past? Ludwig Wittgenstein, the central founder of the linguistic turn and the inspiration of countless works, inspires the search of this book for various linguistic functions: Dialogic, aesthetic, and mystical. The search investigates four Modern Hebrew poets: Zelda, Yehuda Amichai, Admiel Kosman, and Shimon Adaf based on their family resemblance of intertextuality in their language-games. The book resists social-cultural categorizations as religious vs. secular poetry or Mizrahi vs. Ashkenazi literature, and instead, focuses on Wittgenstein's aspects, suggesting universal interpretation of these corpuses UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618114945 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781618114945.jpg ER -