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The book offers a comprehensive philosophical reconstruction of the work of Edmond Jabès a Jewish-French poet, modern Kabbalist and thinker. It is a starting point for an enquiry into the nature of the encounter between Judaism and modern philosophy. Philosophically, Judaism becomes a re-constructed tradition: a field played with by modern forces.

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Edmond Jabès was one of the most intriguing Jewish thinkers of the 20th century - a poet for the public and a Kabbalist for those who read his work more closely. This book turns his writings into a ground-breaking philosophical achievement: thinking which is manifestly indebted to the Kabbalah, but in the post-religious and post-Shoah world. Loss, exile, negativity, God´s absence, writing and Jewishness are the main signposts of the negative ontology which this book offers as an interpretation of Jabès´ work. On the basis of it, the book examines the nature of the miraculous encounter between Judaism and philosophy which occurred in the 20th century. Modern Jewish philosophy is a re-constructed tradition which adapts the intellectual and spiritual legacy of Judaism to answer purely modern questions.

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Jewish philosophy of modernity - Edmond Jabès: life and writing - Tzimtzum: Jabès and Luria - Negative ontology: the vocable ; god, nothing and the name - Messianism of writing - The concept of the book - Judaism and writing - The shoah and anti-semitism - Jabès´ ethics: repetition, resemblance and hospitality - Theology of the point: Jabès as a modern Kabbalist

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Przemyslaw Tacik is Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków. He holds PhDs in philosophy and law and was a visiting scholar at several universities (Buffalo, Nice, Paris, Heidelberg and Lisbon). His main fields of interest are modernity, contemporary and Jewish philosophy, and international law.

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