Mañach and the Last Criollos
A reading of Mañach as a disturbing figure of republican nostalgia, criollo Cubanness, and lost Havana.
Book Reviews
Essays
Kabbalah and Paradise
Kafka, Kabbalah, and communism reveal paradise as loss, impossible utopia, and permanent exile.
Essays
Kabbalah and Cosmos
Kabbalah as symbolic cosmology: creation, rupture, exile, and restoration through sacred language.
Essays
Kabbalah and Combinatorics
A quartz marked with aleph reveals Kabbalah as creative language, infinite combinatorics, and interpretive experience.
Book Reviews
‘El año del cordero’, a novel by Xavier Carbonell
An author discovers a nonexistent novel that he himself wrote.
Book Reviews
Hermes Returns
The editorial return of Hermeticism, a mystical philosophy that links man with God and the cosmos.
Loose Pages
Nicea, Seventeen Centuries
A review of ancient Arianism and its contemporary echo through the history of the Council of Nicaea and the figure of Rufinus.
Book Reviews
Mañach, a Philosophy at 76 Degrees Fahrenheit
¿Una verdadera patria? commemorates and reexamines the relevance of Jorge Mañach’s 1925 cultural critique, bringing together essays and documents that contrast that intellectual republic with the ruin of the present.
Book Reviews
Tsimtsum
The tsimtsum, Luria’s divine self-contraction to create the universe, and its kabbalistic legacy, analyzed by Schulte.