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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: A Poetic Mythology for an Age of Anger?The Furious Construction of Subjectivity in 13th-Century Kabbalah Tuesday, November 27, 2018 In the face of our current “Age of Anger,” Nathaniel Berman turns to the poetic mythology of the Jewish esoteric tradition – replete with tales of the crucial role of fury in the formation of divine, demonic, and human subjectivity. The Zohar, kabbalah’s central text, declares, “there is anger – and – there is anger”: foregrounding anger’s often ambivalent role, both igniting destructive hatred and impelling demands for social justice. Examining Zoharic mythology from rhetorical and psychoanalytic perspectives, Berman shows how it provides a productive language for perennial features of the human condition. Dr. Samantha Hill (Political Studies, Hannah Arendt Center) will be responding to the paper. Time: 4:45 pm – 6:15 pm EST/GMT-5 Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102 Sponsor: Hannah Arendt Center; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Jewish Studies Program Contact: Dr. Shai Secunda. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7389 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://inside.bard.edu/religion/events/