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