Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire

Drawing on Arabic passages from Ibn Gabirol''s original Fons Vitae text, and highlighting philosophical insights from his Hebrew poetry, Sarah Pessin develops a ''theology of desire'' at the heart of Ibn Gabirol''s eleventh-century cosmo-ontology. She challenges centuries of received scholarship on his work, including his so-called Doctrine of Divine Will. Pessin rejects voluntarist readings of th...