True disagreements are very hard to achieve. Yet, they are even
harder to maintain, for the ghost of final agreement constantly
hunts and dissipates them. Nevertheless, the Babylonian Talmud
stands as a shining example of escape from that ghost. Hence, the
questions: Are there any conditions under which a disagreement
entails a genuine and final relationship between finite minds? Do
agreements always only create temporary steps toward final
agreement? Must a community of disagreement always imply an
agreement, as in an agreement to disagree? Dolgopolski's What is
Talmud? The Art of Disagreement rethinks the task of philological,
literary, historical, and cultural analysis of the Talmud. The book
introduces a new aspect of this task that has been, in different
areas of study, best approximated by philosophical-anthropological
and/or ontological interrogation of human being in relationship to
the Other - animal, divine, and human. In both engagement and
disengagement with post-Heideggerian tradition of thought,
Dolgopolski complements existing philological-historical and
cultural approaches to the Talmud with a rigorous anthropological
and ontological and, as it will become clear, Talmudic inquiry. To
that end, he redefines the place of the Talmud and its study, both
traditional and academic, on 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
either logical, grammatical, or even rhetorical arts for the
purpose of textual hermeneutics. The book reveals and describes the
intellectual art of Talmud. In Talmudic art, disagreement is a
fundamental category; as such, Talmudreassesses heretofore dominant
auxiliarist approaches to disagreement. Having always been a means,
and never a goal, disagreement now appears in a new Talmudic light.
The What is Talmud? returns Talmud as an intellectual art to the
Talmud as a book, and rediscovers an intellectual perspective on
disagreement as the ultimate condition of finite human existence or
co-existence.
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