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Description of  Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Leonard Cohen s Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & Beyond (New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism)

Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Leonard Cohens Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & beyond analyzes the lyrical poetry of Leonard Cohen through a post-secular lens. The volume fuses sophisticated theory and popular culture with critical analysis that is lacking in most of the rock n roll biographies about Leonard Cohen. How does this mystical maestros songbook emerge to illuminate questions of meaning making in a post-secular context when correlated with thinkers like Charles Taylor, Edward S. Casey, Jurgen Habermas, Slavoj iek, Jeffrey Kripal and Harold Bloom along with others. Cohens mysticism is also analyzed in relationship to Kabbalah, Hasidism and Rinzai Buddhism. Read more