Preface
Chapter One
Poetic Grammar: Three Aspects of Aesthetic Judgment
1. Examination and Judgment of Aesthetic Language: The Fundamental Tension
2. The First Aspect: A Poetic Work as Driving Reflective Introspection
3. The Second Aspect: Conscious Change as the Key to Aesthetic Judgment
4. The Third Aspect: Showing What Cannot Be Said
Summation
Chapter Two
Dialogical Grammar: Variations of Dialogue in Wittgenstein’s Methodology as Ways of Self-Constitution
1. “Family Resemblance” between the Platonic Dialogue and Wittgenstein’s Methodology
1.1. Wittgenstein’s Critique of Socrates
1.2. Similarities between Wittgensteinian and Socratic Dialogue
1.3. Language as a Medium of Thought: Soliloquy as Ordinary Language
1.4. Reflective Dialogue: Dialogue between Sense-Perception and Image
2. Wittgensteinian Dialogical Grammar in the Philosophical Investigations: Rhetorical, Conversational, Reflective
2.1. Dialogism in the Philosophical Investigations: “A Surveyable Representation”
2.2. Aspects of Dialogism
2.3. Dialogue as Technique
2.4. Conversational Dialogue
2.5. Reflective Dialogue
Chapter Three
Self-Constitution through Mystical Grammar: The Urge and Its Expressions
Three Channels of Mystical Grammar
1. Preliminary Considerations: Theology as Grammar and the Metaphysical Subject
2. The Mystical-Religious Channel: The Religious Aspect of Mystical Grammar
3. Who Is Experiencing? The Paradox of the I and the “Solution” of the Mystic Subject
4. I as Object—I as Subject: From James to Wittgenstein
5. From Perfectionism to Confession: Work on Oneself
Chapter Four
Zelda: The Complex Self-Constitution of the Believer
1. Expression and Conversion between Everyday and Poetic Grammar
2. Dialogic Grammar: Internal and External Observations
3. Mystical Grammar: Perfectionism and Metaphysics as Zelda’s Varieties of Religious Experience
Chapter Five
Yehuda Amichai: Amen and Love
1. The Poetics of Change: The Grammaticalization of Experience
2. Dialogic Grammar: The Importance of Otherness
3. Reconstruction of the Subject: The Mystical Grammar of Open Closed Open
3.1. The Mechanism of Change as the Key to Perfectionism
3.2. The Conception of an Individual God: God as Change and as Interlocutor
3.3. The Encounter with Biblical Word-Games as the Key to the Reconstruction of the Self
3.4. The Refashioning of Religious Rituals as an Expression of Intersubjective Change of the Self
Chapter Six
Admiel Kosman: We Reached God
The Popping Self
1. The Poetic Grammar of Revolution: The New Believer
1.1. How to Do Things with Words: The Weekly Torah Portion
1.2. When All the Words Are Finished—All Is Intoxicated from Clarity
2. Dialogical Grammar: Self-Constitution as Conversational Process
3. Mystical Grammar: Private Pain and Manifestation of the Other
Chapter Seven
Shimon Adaf: Poetry as Philosophy and Philosophy as Poetry
The Nobility of Pain
1. Icarus Monologue: The Poetic Grammar of Hybrid Imagination
2. What I Thought Shadow Is the Real Body: The Dialogical Grammar of Place, Time, and Memory
2.1. Poetry as a Chronological and Thematic Point of Departure
2.2. The Subject as the Limit of the World
3. Aviva-No: The Grammar of Mourning
4. The Way Music Speaks
Summation: “As if I Could Read the Darkness”
Index