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What Is Talmud?
The Art of Disagreement
Sergey Dolgopolski
$60.00
ISBN: 9780823229345
Book (Hardcover)
Fordham University Press
320 pages
May 2009
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"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
“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
"Explores Talmudic interpretation through a study of Rabbi Izhak Canpanton and his followers in 15th-century Spain."—The Chronicle of Higher Education True disagreements are very hard to achieve. They are even harder to
maintain, for the ghost of final agreement constantly haunts them. The
Babylonian Talmud, however, escapes from that ghost of agreement. Taking
it as an example, one might ask: Are there any conditions under which
disagreement might constitute a genuine and final relationship between
finite minds? Are disagreements always only temporary steps toward final
agreement? Must a community of disagreement always imply agreement,
as in an agreement to disagree?
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. In Talmudic intellectual art,
disagreement is a fundamental category, the ultimate condition of finite
human existence or co-existence.
| SERGEY DOLGOPOLSKI is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the
University of Kansas. He is the author of Talmudic Rhetoric: An Analysis in
View of Post-structuralism, Affect and Figure (in Russian) and numerous
articles in Continental thought and philosophy and in Jewish studies. |
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