Overmorrow’s Library

S2E6 – Prof. Giulio Busi on Jewish mysticism

Episode Summary

The second season of Overmorrow’s Library is dedicated to world-building, world-ending, and travel across worlds. Federico Campagna presents a new selection of books that might help us to appreciate the fragility of ‘worlds’, and the art of creating new ones through a particular use of our imagination. In this episode, Federico Campagna interviews Prof. Giulio Busi, director of the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Frei Universitet Berlin, on the long and complex tradition of Jewish mysticism.

Episode Notes

Image credit: Cosmic Rose Engraving from Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae by Heinrich Khunrath (1595).