Primacies : Experience, Expression, and the Jewish Imagination - Michael Fishbane

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Primacies

Experience, Expression, and the Jewish Imagination

By: Michael Fishbane

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Hardcover | 24 October 2025 | Edition Number 1

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272 Pages

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24.5 x 15.5 x 2.4

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A powerful exploration of how literature expresses and transforms our earliest preverbal experiences.

Primacies begins with the assertion that our earliest preverbal experiences are accompanied by a primary language—a universal expression of tears, cries, and laughter offered long before we learn our distinctive, ordinary languages. For Michael Fishbane, these "primacies" release the raw feelings of our existential condition and catalyze our most powerful literary expressions of sorrow, joy, and fulfillment.

In this book, Fishbane explores how ancient, medieval, and modern literature and poetry express and transform these primal sensations. Building on his theological project begun in Sacred Attunement and Fragile Finitude, Fishbane offers here a radically new lived hermeneutics that seeks to do nothing less than redefine the relationship between experience and language.

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