Talmud <i>and</i> Philosophy
Conjunctions, Disjunctions, Continuities
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Talmud <i>and</i> Philosophy
Conjunctions, Disjunctions, Continuities
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Wide-ranging and astutely argued, Talmud and Philosophy examines the intersections, partitions, and mutual illuminations and problematizations of Western philosophy and the Talmud. Among many philosophers, the Talmud has been at best an idealized and remote object and, at worst, if noticed at all, an object of curiosity. The contributors to this volume collectively ignite and probe a new mode of inquiry by approaching the very question of partitions, conjunctions, and disjunctions between the Talmud and philosophy as the guiding question of their inquiry.
Rather than using the Talmud and its modes of argumentation to develop existing philosophical themes, these essays probe the question of how the Talmud as an intellectual discipline sheds new light on the unfolding of philosophy in the history of thought.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Sergey Dolgopolski and James Adam Redfield
- 1. To Refute God Himself: Talmud as Meta-Philosophy / Agata Bielik-Robson
- 2. Talmudic and Jewish Logo-Politics / Elad Lapidot
- 3. But I Say: The Political (Dis)appearance of the Past in Rabbinic Citation / Sergey Dolgopolski
- 4. Pragmatic Points of View: Kant and the Rabbis, Together Again / James Adam Redfield
- 5. Systematicity and Normative Closure in Lithuanian Talmudism / Yonatan Y. Brafman
- 6. The Talmudic Concept hamar gamal (Donkey DriverâCamel Driver): A Legal and Literary-Somatic Analysis of Talmudic Imagery / Lynn Kaye
- 7. The Language of Plants and Human-World Entanglement in Midrash and Walter Benjaminâs Philosophy of Language / Alexander Weisberg
- 8. Between Philosophy and Rhetoric: The Mishnah Yoma as a Case Study / Sophia Avants
- Postscript: Ein talmudisches Etwas Ăźber die philosophische Literatur: A Talmudic Observation on Philosophy / Karma Ben-Johanan
- Bibliography
- Index