What the Knife Cannot Touch
On Seeing Beyond The Surface from Aristotle and Heidegger to Lurianic Kabbalah
Standing in the warm shallows of a tidal lagoon on the island of Lesbos, a young Aristotle cut open a cuttlefish. He had left Athens when his teacher died and the city soured on friends of Macedon, and he had come to the great salt lagoon at Pyrrha, where the flats hold the sun and the sea life runs thick. There he did something that, as far as we know,…
