What is Talmud? : the art of disagreement / Sergey Dolgopolski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dolgopolskii, S. B. (Sergei Borisovich)

Contributor:

Project Muse

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Talmud--Methodology.

Talmud.

Talmud--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Talmud--Philosophy.

Reasoning.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 333 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

True disagreements are hard to achieve, and even harder to maintain, for the ghost of final agreement constantly haunts them. The Babylonian Talmud, however, escapes from that ghost of agreement, and provokes unsettling questions: Are there any conditions under which disagreement might constitute a genuine relationship between minds? Are disagreements always only temporary steps toward final agreement? Must a community of disagreement always imply agreement, as in an agreement to disagree? What is Talmud? rethinks the task of philological, literary, historical, and cultural analysis of the Talmud. It introduces an aspect of this task that has best been approximated by the philosophical, anthropological, and ontological interrogation of human being in relationship to the Other-whether animal, divine, or human. In both engagement and disengagement with post-Heideggerian traditions of thought, Sergey Dogopolski complements philological-historical and cultural approaches to the Talmud with a rigorous anthropological, ontological, and Talmudic inquiry. He redefines the place of the Talmud and its study, both traditional and academic, in the intellectual map of the West, arguing that Talmud is a scholarly art of its own and represents a fundamental intellectual discipline, not a mere application of logical, grammatical, or even rhetorical arts for the purpose of textual hermeneutics. In Talmudic intellectual art, disagreement is a fundamental category. What Is Talmud? rediscovers disagreement as the ultimate condition of finite human existence or co-existence.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. What Is Talmud?

2. The Talmud in Heidegger’s Aftermath

3. The Art of (the) Talmud

4. Talmud as Event

5. The Ways of the Talmud in Its Rhetorical Dimension: A Performative Analytical Description

6. The Art of Disagreement

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-325) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612698866

9780823246885

0823246884

9780823236725

0823236722

9781282698864

1282698869

9780823238767

0823238768

9780823229369

082322936X

OCLC:

650219018