Parting Knowledge

by James Wetzel

Book Overview

There are forms of knowing that seem either to come from a parting or to require one. Paradigmatically in Genesis, Adam parts from God in order to join in knowledge with his partner, the flesh of his flesh, and the result is a bereft but not unpromising knowledge, looking like a labor of love. Saint Augustine famously--some would say infamously--reads the Genesis paradigm of knowing as a story of original sin, where parting is both damnable and disfiguring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608999459
• ISBN13: 9781608999453
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"