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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457035603321

Autore

Dolgopolʹskiĭ S. B (Sergeĭ Borisovich)

Titolo

What is Talmud? [[electronic resource] ] : the art of disagreement / / Sergey Dolgopolski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8232-4688-4

0-8232-3672-2

1-282-69886-9

9786612698866

0-8232-3876-8

0-8232-2936-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 333 p. )

Disciplina

296.1/2506

Soggetti

Reasoning

Rhetoric

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.