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Other Others - The Political after the Talmud (Hardcover)
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Other Others - The Political after the Talmud (Hardcover)
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Denying recognition or even existence to certain others, while
still tolerating diversity, stabilizes a political order; or does
it? Revisiting this classical question of political theory, the
book turns to the Talmud. That late ancient body of text and
thought displays a new concept of the political, and thus a new
take on the question of excluded others. Philosophy- and
theology-driven approaches to the concept of the political have
tacitly elided a concept of the political which the Talmud
displays; yet, that elision becomes noticeable only by a methodical
rereading of the pages of the Talmud through and despite the lens
of contemporary competing theological and philosophical theories of
the political. The book commits such rereading of the Talmud, which
at the same time is a reconsideration of contemporary political
theory. In that way, The Political intervenes both to the study of
the Talmud and Jewish Thought in its aftermath, and to political
theory in general. The question of the political for the excluded
others, or for those who programmatically do not claim any
"original" belonging to a particular territory comes at the
forefront of analysis in the book. Other Others approaches this
question by moving from a modern political figure of "Jew" as such
an "other other" to the late ancient texts of the Talmud. The pages
of the Talmud emerge in the book as a (dis)appearing display of the
interpersonal rather than intersubjective political. The argument
in the book arrives, at the end, to a demand to think earth anew,
now beyond the notions of territory, land, nationalism or
internationalism, or even beyond the notion of universe, that have
defined the thinking of earth so far.
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