Other Others

The Political After the Talmud

Sergey Dolgopolski (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2018 | New edition
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
9780823280193 (ISBN)

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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.

Sergey Dolgopolski is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Thought at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he holds the Gordon and Gretchen Gross Professorship in Jewish Studies. He is the author of What Is Talmud? The Art of Disagreement and The Open Past: Subjectivity and Remembering in the Talmud.

Introduction: Humans, Jews, and the Other Others
Part I. Modern Impasses
1. The Question of the Political: Back to Where You Once Belonged?
2. Jews, in Theory
Part II. The Talmud as the Political
3. Talmudic Self-Refutation (Interpersonality I)
4. Conceptions of the Human: The Limits of Regret (Interpersonality II)
5. Apodictic Irony and the Production of Well-Structured Uncertainty: Tosafot Gornish and the Talmud as the Political after Kant
Part III. The Political for Other Others
6. Formally Human (Jewish Responses to Kant I)
7. Mis-Taking in Halakha and Aggadah (Jewish Responses to Kant II)
8. The Earth for the Other Others
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.06.2018
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9780823280193 / 9780823280193
Zustand	Neuware