"Wide-ranging and astutely argued, Talmud /and/ Philosophy examines the intersections, partitions, and mutual illuminations and problematizations of western philosophy and the Talmud. Among its devoted students or "learners," the Talmud - both as text and mode of thought - is a constantly unfolding truth about humans in their relationship to God in the world. Among many philosophers, the Talmud has been at best an idealized and remote object, and at worse, if noticed at all, an object for curiosity. The contributors to this volume collectively turn on 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, the 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"--

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction, by Sergey Dolgopolski and James Adam Redfield
1. To Refute God Himself: Talmud as Meta-Philosophy, by Agata Bielik-Robson
2. Jewish and Talmudic Logo-Politics, by Elad Lapidot
3. But I Say: The Political (Dis)appearance of the Past in Rabbinic Citation, by Sergey Dolgopolski
4. Pragmatic Points of View: Kant and the Rabbis, Together Again, by James Adam Redfield
5. Systematicity and Normative Closure in Lithuanian Talmudism, by Yonatan Y. Brafman
6. The Talmudic Concept hamar-gamal (Donkey Driver-Camel Driver): A Legal and Somatic Analysis of Talmudic Imagery, by Lynn Kaye
7. The Language of Plants and Human-World Entanglement in Midrash and in Benjamin's Philosophy of Language, by Alexander Weisberg
8. From Sinai to Community: The Mishnah Olah between Philosophy and Rhetoric, by Sophia Avants
Postscript: Ein talmudisches Etwas über philosophische Literatur: A Talmudic Observation on Philosophy, by Karma Ben-Johanan
Bibliography
Index of Ancient and Medieval Sources
Index

Edited by Sergey Dolgopolski and James Adam Redfield