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Author Dolgopolʹskiĭ, S. B. (Sergeĭ Borisovich)

Title What is Talmud? : the art of disagreement / Sergey Dolgopolski
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2009

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Contents What is Talmud? -- The Talmud in Heidegger's aftermath -- The art of (the) Talmud -- Talmud as event -- The ways of the Talmud in its rhetorical dimension: a performative analytical description -- The art of disagreement
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? This book 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 beings in relationship to the Other--whether animal, divine, or human. In both engagement and disengagement with post-Heideggerian traditions of thought, the book complements philological-historical and cultural approaches to Talmud with an anthropological, ontological, and Talmudic inquiry. It redefines the place of the Talmud and its study, both traditional and academic, in the intellectual map of the West, arguing that the 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. This book rediscovers disagreement as the ultimate condition of finite human existence or co-existence."--Publisher's abstract
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-325) and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Talmud -- Methodology
Talmud -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91005541
Talmud -- Philosophy
Talmud fast
Subject Reasoning.
Rhetoric
rhetoric (discipline)
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Talmud.
PHILOSOPHY -- Religious.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
Methodology
Philosophy
Reasoning
Rhetoric
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008043310
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