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In the Image

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Virtual Religion and Philosophical Talmud

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvZachary J. Braiterman

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In the Image sets Jewish philosophy and contemporary aesthetics and art in conversation with Talmudic texts. Pulling contemporary Jewish thought from the Bible as a model of philosophical reflection, author Zachary J. Braiterman turns to the Babylonian Talmud as a nonrealist model of religious-philosophical discourse steeped in the virtual. This "philosophical Talmud" pushes past the conceptual traps of modern Jewish thought. In the Image conceptualizes Jewish philosophy as a nonsymbolic, nonrealist form of theoretical discourse that bends consciousness around unreal, virtual objects and imaginary worlds, simulation and surface appearance of bodies and objects. In the Image explores the human and human viscera, sacred place, anthropomorphism, iconophilia, and cosmopolitanism as elemental forms of religious thought.A new way of conceptualizing Jewish philosophy and religion, In the Image probes into the aesthetic determination of religious thought and practice to see how the basic reality and "truth" of religion are constituted inside the image itself.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-04
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt610 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Jewish Philosophy and Thought
Antal sidor328
FörlagIndiana University Press
ISBN9780253076106

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"Braiterman's project is daring and innovative; his reading of the Babilonian Talmud fresh and unexpected yet simultaneously well-backed by his own studies and the erudite knowledge of the cutting-edge talmudic interpretations."—Agata Bielik-Robson, University of Nottingham"This book returns the power of the virtual to the image, as far as the Babylonian art of Talmud is concerned. . . . Images have been either denied reality or considered the only real that only is. Against this traditional bifurcation, Braiterman turns to the life lived and cast by the late ancient rabbis in their art of Talmud in order to retrieve the virtual as the core of what image is. The outcome is the departure from the traditional pigeonholing of the image into an idol and the return to image as no longer an object – either in or in opposition to reality but rather as the virtual through and in which the reality of life is first taking place."—Sergey Dolgopolski, SUNY Buffalo