Saturn''s Jews : On the Witches'' Sabbat and Sabbateanism.
This book explores the phenomenon of Saturnism, namely the belief that the planet Saturn, the seventh known planet in ancient astrology, was appointed upon the Jews, who celebrated the Sabbath, the seventh day of the Jewish week. Moshe Idel details how the anonymous, late 14th century Sefer Ha-Peliy...
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Bloomsbury Publishing,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Radical contingency and the materializations of technology; Chapter 2. From stone to radiation: the depth and speed of technical embodiments; Chapter 3. The technicity of time: 1.00 oscillation/second to 9,192,631,770 Hz; Chapter 4. Infrastructure and individuation: speed and delay in Stelarc's Ping Body; Chapter 5. Losing time at the PlayStation: real time and the 'whatever' body; Chapter 6. Life, collectives and the pre-vital technicity of biotechnology; Conclusion; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; P; O; Q.
- Rs; t; v; w.