TY - BOOK AU - Martins,Ansgar TI - The Migration of Metaphysics into the Realm of the Profane: Theodor W. Adorno Reads Gershom Scholem T2 - IJS Studies in Judaica SN - 9789004399068 AV - D16.8 U1 - 901 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Leiden; , Boston PB - BRILL KW - Philosophy N2 - Ansgar Martins’s The Migration of Metaphysics into the Realm of the Profane is the first book-length study focusing on Adorno’s idiosyncratic appropriation of Jewish mysticism in the light of his relationship to Gershom Scholem and their shared intellectual contexts. Rather than merely posit vague associative connections, as previous authors have often done, Martins’s close reading of specific references in published and private texts alike allows him to highlight both commonalities and differences between Adorno’s and Scholem’s understanding of Kabbalistic tropes and the issue of metaphysics in the modern world, and to demonstrate the extent to which similarities resulted from mutual and/or third-party influences (especially Benjamin). Martins throws the specifics of their respective idiosyncratic appropriations of (Jewish) tradition into sharp relief UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004399068 ER -