No Logos: Exilic Theory of Talmud

What does it mean to be Jewish today? In current discourse, Jewish existence is defined primarily as endangered life rather than as a tradition of thought. This book challenges that reduction. It argues that the radical way to resist both antisemitism and its mirror image—Judaism defined only through its defense—is to return to Talmud as the site of Jewish thinking. Talmud, long dismissed in European philosophy as law without thought, becomes here the key to reclaiming Judaism as an intelle...