Search results for ""Author Sergey Dolgopolski""
MH - Indiana University Press Talmud and Philosophy
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Fordham University Press What Is Talmud
Book SynopsisRedefines the place of the Talmud and its study in the intellectual map of the West.Trade Review"What is Talmud? The Art of Disagreement is an innovative and provocative analysis of the intellectual art and practice of Talmud, exemplified by the fifteenth-century Castilian commentator, Izh.ak(DOT UNDER H) Canpanton. Embracing a sophisticated conceptual methodology, Dolgopolski sets talmudic rhetoric in contrast to the dominant Western philosophical concern for agreement. Influenced by Nietzsche and Heidegger, the author combines philology and anthropology in an attempt to provide an alternative to viewing the Talmud primarily as a traditional source or a historical object. This work of speculative juxtaposition promises to expand the horizon of philosophic hermeneutics and rabbinic dialectic, and to highlight the value of disagreement to human discourse more generally: not only is it important to agree to disagree, but it is precisely disagreement that facilitates a deeper sense of agreement." -- -Elliot R. Wolfson New York University "With the loss of the most seemingly inconsequential of words, the "the" before "Talmud," a world, Sergey Dolgopolski shows us, can be gained. Leaving behind what was previously understood as a circumscribed text or body of thought, we find a new and potent mode of thinking, different from logic, hermeneutics and philosophy, which has implications far beyond those of theological disputation. Drawing on the most advanced contemporary continental theory to revive the forgotten lessons of the 15^th -century Sephardic sage Canpanton, Dolgopolski provides stunningly original and profoundly unsettling insights into "the art of disagreement." -- -Martin Jay University of California, Berkeley "In both engagement and disengagement with post-Heideggerian traditions of thought, What Is Talmud redefines the place of the Talmud and its study in the intellectual map of the West." -Shofar "Explores Talmudic interpretation through a study of Rabbi Izhak Canpanton and his followers in 15th-century Spain." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "What is Talmud? is a provocative and strikingly original work that defies disciplinary boundaries. This intensive encounter staged between Talmud and post-structuralist thought not only gives us an illuminating new perspective on each of these traditions, it also provides a lucid and sophisticated reconceptualization of rhetoric that emerges out of their mutual confrontation. The relevance of post-structural thought to Talmud is clearly demonstrated here. However, what is most extraordinary to me is the powerful (and persuasive) claim that philosophy must itself seriously engage Talmud in order to move beyond the impasses of post-Heideggarian thought." -- -David Bates University of California, Berkeley "Dolgopolski's argument that Talmud offers an alternative to philosophy in its radical past-ness is brillant and ground-breaking." -- -Bruce Rosenstock University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana "Dolgopolski brilliantly maps how each subtle shift in twentieth-century philosophy has established the groundwork for presenting Talmud as a third way between philosophy and rhetoric." -- -Zvi Septimus The Journal of AJS Review
£58.65
Indiana University Press Talmud and Philosophy
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Fordham University Press Other Others
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Humans, Jews, and the Other Others Part I. Modern Impasses 1. The Question of the Political: Back to Where You Once Belonged? 2. Jews, in Theory Part II. The Talmud as the Political 3. Talmudic Self-Refutation (Interpersonality I) 4. Conceptions of the Human: The Limits of Regret (Interpersonality II) 5. Apodictic Irony and the Production of Well-Structured Uncertainty: Tosafot Gornish and the Talmud as the Political after Kant Part III. The Political for Other Others 6. Formally Human (Jewish Responses to Kant I) 7. Mis-Taking in Halakha and Aggadah (Jewish Responses to Kant II) 8. The Earth for the Other Others Notes Index
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Fordham University Press The Open Past
Book SynopsisSeeks to reclaim the power and authority the past exerts in the TalmudTrade ReviewA brilliant and innovative study of how the work of memory can transform human identity, weaving the speech and thought of the single person into the fabric of an ongoing transmission of sayings, refutations of sayings, defenses of sayings, refutations of defenses, and so on without end, until all that is left is a virtual identity awaiting reactivation by another learner who, in tum, is transformed into new pathways within the ever-growing work of memory.---—Bruce Rosenstock, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignSergei Dolgopolski’s project here should not be underestimated: It is nothing else than 'undo[ing] the erasure of the thought processes in the Talmud from the intellectual map of the West,' and Dolgopolsky is up to the task. Toward that aim, he offers fine articulations of Heidegger and Levinas as their thought shapes this project, along with a lucid explanation of the relevance and differences of philosophy, rhetoric and Talmud vis-à-vis thinking, memory and personhood. Overall, the book is a stunning illustration of what can be done once the assumption of the 'thinking subject' in the Talmud is set aside in favor of the 'very complex dance of thinking.'---—Jonathan Boyarin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill...Dolgopolski has caught the phenomenological aura of Talmud, the uncanny sense that Talmud is Torah, an order of thinking as truth whose source transcends a controlling, thinking human subject who is present at hand. * Los Angeles Review of Books *
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