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No one theory of time is pursued in these essays, but a major theme that threads them together is Wolfson’s signature idea of the timeswerve as a linear circularity or a circular linearity, expressions that are meant to avoid the conventional split between the two temporal modalities of the line and the circle. The conception of time elicited by Wolfson from a host of philosophical and mystical sources—both Jewish and non-Jewish—buttresses the contention that it is precisely structural invariability that engenders interpretive variation. This hermeneutical axiom is justified, in turn, by the presumption regarding the cadence of time as the constant return of what has always been what is yet to be. The telling of time wells forth from the time of telling. One cannot speak of the being of time, consequently, except from the standpoint of the time of being, nor of the time of being except from the standpoint of the being of time.

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Elliot R. Wolfson, Ph.D. (1986), Brandeis University, is the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published widely in the area of Jewish philosophy and mysticism. His work is informed by phenomenology, hermeneutics, literary criticism and gender theory. His two most recent monographs are The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism and the Jewish Other (2018) and Heidegger and Kabbalah: Hidden Gnosis and the Path of Poiēsis (2019).

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