Intentionality and Kabbalistic Practices in Early Modern East-Central Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23013255 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Agata Paluch (0000-0002-9678-4254, Freie Universität Berlin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-111 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Aries (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1567-9896 • E-ISSN: 1570-0593 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15700593-01901004 |
| OpenAlex | W3017259685 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
Kavanot , or mystical intentions, have acquired varied meanings and interpretations in kabbalistic literatures, from the practice of harmonising one’s mind with the requirement of performed ritual to elaborate processes of mental focus, exercised during prayer and other ritual acts, on divine attributes signified by divine names and stipulated meticulously in kabbalistic prayer-books. Early modern practical kabbalistic manuals also, to no surprise, abound with instructions which recommend a variety of kavanot . In many of these manuals and books of recipes, it is the intention that enables extending of one’s mind toward matter, and builds a new type of continuity between the practitioner and the outside world. Intentionality in kabbalistic practice thus channels the emergence of the performing, knowledgeable self, engaged in shaping the material world, a development which runs parallel to the emergence of new configurations of knowledge in the early modern period. This rise of intentional self, manifest in kabbalistic practices as expressed in early modern handwritten books of recipes of East-Central European provenance, will be the focus of this article.
Aesthetics · Art · Early modern period · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Intentionality · Literature · Mysticism · Period (music) · Prayer · Surprise · Theology · Variety (cybernetics) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Social Psychology
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Ritual
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |