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Primacies: Experience, Expression, and the Jewish Imagination

Primacies: Experience, Expression, and the Jewish Imagination

Fishbane, Michael

Hardcover

Literary CriticismReligion General Judaism

ISBN10: 0226842118
ISBN13: 9780226842110
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Aug 20 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.01
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
A powerful exploration of how literature expresses and transforms our earliest preverbal experiences.

Primacies begins with the assertion that our earliest preverbal experiences are accompanied by a primary language--a universal expression of tears, cries, and laughter offered long before we learn our distinctive, ordinary languages. For Michael Fishbane, these primacies release the raw feelings of our existential condition and catalyze our most powerful literary expressions of sorrow, joy, and fulfillment.

In this book, Fishbane explores how ancient, medieval, and modern literature and poetry express and transform these primal sensations. Building on his theological project begun in Sacred Attunement and Fragile Finitude, Fishbane offers here a radically new lived hermeneutics that seeks to do nothing less than redefine the relationship between experience and language.

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