Cosmopolitanism and Searching for the Sacred Space in Jewish Literature

Bibliographic Data

ID2760893
AuthorsAmir Eshel (corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume9
Issue3
Pages121-138
Publication date2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJewish Social Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-6704 • E-ISSN: 1527-2028
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jss.2003.0018
OpenAlexW4238723518
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited3

From its onset in Stoicism, cosmopolitanism encompassed both ars vitae and a philosophical attitude that equated the space of the polis with that of the entire cosmos. In relating space to human existence and to death, Stoicism followed the archaic notion that human existence is fundamentally connected to and manifested in space. Indeed, as Mircea Eliade and others pointed out, it was through the placing of a sign of human being in space that geographical places first became recognized as such, and, vice versa, that human existence obtained a form. 1 Life and death were bound to space through the placing of a mark, primarily to distinguish the ancestral burial site from the chaos of the universe. The presence of human remains at this place denoted the relation between finitude and genealogical continuation, making the act of burial the very source of signification. In fact, the ancient Greek word sema meant both "sign" and "grave." 2

Art · Cosmopolitanism · Epistemology · Human life · Humanity · Judaism · Linguistics · Literature · Politics · Relation (database · Sign (mathematics · Space (punctuation) · Stoicism · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Byzantine Studies and History · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces

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