Talmud and Philosophy: Conjunctions, Disjunctions, Continuities (New Jewish Philosophy and Thought)

By: Agata Bielik-Robson and Elad Lapidot and Yonatan Y. Brafman and Lynn Kaye and Alexander Weisberg and Sophia Avants and Karma Ben-Johanan and Sergey Dolgopolski and James Adam Redfield

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Synopsis: Wide-ranging and astutely argued, Talmud and Philosophy examines the intersections, partitions, and mutual illuminations and problematizations of Western philosophy and the Talmud. Among many philosophers, the Talmud has been at best an idealized and remote object and, at worst, if noticed at all, an object of curiosity. The contributors to this volume collectively ignite and probe a new mode of inquiry by approaching the very question of partitions, conjunctions, and disjunctions between the Talmud and philosophy as the guiding question of their inquiry. Rather than using the Talmud and its modes of argumentation to develop existing philosophical themes, these essays probe the question of how the Talmud as an intellectual discipline sheds new light on the unfolding of philosophy in the history of thought.