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What Is Talmud? : The Art of Disagreement / Sergey Dolgopolski.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823229345
  • 9780823238767
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 296.1/2506 22
LOC classification:
  • BM503.6 .D65 2009eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. WHAT IS TALMUD? -- 1. What Is Talmud? -- 2. The Talmud in Heidegger’s Aftermath -- 3. The Art of (the) Talmud -- 4. Talmud as Event -- PART TWO: THE WAYS OF THE TALMUD IN ITS RHETORICAL DIMENSION -- 5. The Ways of the Talmud in Its Rhetorical Dimension: A Performative Analytical Description -- PART THREE: THE ART OF DISAGREEMENT -- 6. The Art of Disagreement -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. WHAT IS TALMUD? -- 1. What Is Talmud? -- 2. The Talmud in Heidegger’s Aftermath -- 3. The Art of (the) Talmud -- 4. Talmud as Event -- PART TWO: THE WAYS OF THE TALMUD IN ITS RHETORICAL DIMENSION -- 5. The Ways of the Talmud in Its Rhetorical Dimension: A Performative Analytical Description -- PART THREE: THE ART OF DISAGREEMENT -- 6. The Art of Disagreement -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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