The Open Past : : Subjectivity and Remembering in the Talmud / / Sergey Dolgopolski.

If life in time is imminent and means an always open future, what role remains for the past? If time originates from that relationship to the future, then the past can only be a fictitious beginning, a necessary phantom of a starting point, a retroactively generated chronological period of "bef...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part one. Stakes
  • One. What Happens to Thinking?
  • Two. Ego Cogito, Ego Meminí: I Think, Therefore I Remember
  • Three. Through Talmud Criticism to the Talmud as Thought and Memory
  • Part two. Who Speaks?
  • Preamble: The Virtual Author
  • Four. Thought and Memory in the Talmud: The Ambiguous Status of “The Author”—and Beyond
  • Five. Human Existence in the Talmud: Thinking as Multiplicity and Heterogeneity
  • Six. Sense in the Making: Hermeneutical Practices of the Babylonian Talmud
  • Part three. Who Thinks?
  • Preamble. The Virtual Subject
  • Seven. Who Thinks in the Talmud?
  • Eight. The Hand of Augustine: Thought, Memory, and Performative Existence in the Talmud
  • Part four. Who Remembers?
  • Nine. What Is the Sophist? Who Is the Rabbi? The Virtual of Thinking
  • Ten. The Talmud as Film
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Talmud criticism, ananalytical example “Composer” versus “Redactors”: David Halivni’s and Shamma Friedman’s Competing Readings of Baba Metzi‘a 76ab
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index