There is an ontology behind or beneath Wolfson’s reflecting words. Hence Wolfson’s consistent embrace of Nicholas of Cusa’s coincidentia oppositorum, or “coincidence of opposites,” as a model of kabbalistic thought and as a forerunner and fulfillment of postmodern theory today. This coincidence or identity of opposites, which violates and transcends the Aristotelian logic that currently defines pretty much the entire academy, is perhaps the deepest structure of all Wolfson’s cognitive structures.
