Talmud and Philosophy

Sergey Dolgopolski is Professor in the Departments of Jewish Thought and Comparative Literature and Gordon and Gretchen Gross Professor of Jewish Thought at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and author of Other Others: The Political After the Talmud; The Open Past: Subjectivity and Remembering in the Talmud; and What Is Talmud? The Art of Disagreement. James Adam Redfield is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theological Studies, a Fellow of the Research Institute at Saint Louis University, a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, the author of Adventures of Rabbah & Friends: The Talmud's Strange Tales and their Readers, and the translator/editor of a collection of Yiddish stories with his introduction and notes by Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky, From a Distant Relation.

Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction, by Sergey Dolgopolski and James Adam Redfield 1. To Refute God Himself: Talmud as Meta-Philosophy, by Agata Bielik-Robson 2. Jewish and Talmudic Logo-Politics, by Elad Lapidot 3. But I Say: The Political (Dis)appearance of the Past in Rabbinic Citation, by Sergey Dolgopolski 4. Pragmatic Points of View: Kant and the Rabbis, Together Again, by James Adam Redfield 5. Systematicity and Normative Closure in Lithuanian Talmudism, by Yonatan Y. Brafman 6. The Talmudic Concept hamar-gamal (Donkey Driver-Camel Driver): A Legal and Somatic Analysis of Talmudic Imagery, by Lynn Kaye 7. The Language of Plants and Human-World Entanglement in Midrash and in Benjamin's Philosophy of Language, by Alexander Weisberg 8. From Sinai to Community: The Mishnah Olah between Philosophy and Rhetoric, by Sophia Avants Postscript: Ein talmudisches Etwas ueber philosophische Literatur: A Talmudic Observation on Philosophy, by Karma Ben-Johanan Bibliography Index of Ancient and Medieval Sources Index