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Author:   Marc-Alain Ouaknin ,  Llewellyn Brown
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 19.70cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.482kg
ISBN:  

9780691059204

ISBN 10:   0691059209
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   31 May 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

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This remarkable book ... is rich in suggestive ideas, including the proposal that thought has its highest ethical function when it refuses wisdom in favor of 'asking a question that it cannot answer.' -- Peter C. Brown Canadian Philosophical Reviews The gifts Ouaknin offers are many. His use of Kabbalistic thought simultaneously offers profound insight into the nature of the book and illuminates the concepts used... He offers multiple, useful paths forward in the study of the book, narrative, reading practices, community formation, religious thought, and the Talmud itself. Journal of Communication Praise for the French edition: Marc-Alain Ouaknin's book is a veritable gift for the heart and mind! ... [It] contains a radical criticism of the 'masters' who '[think] they control their language and the language of others.' -- Robert Maggiori Liberation

This remarkable book ... is rich in suggestive ideas, including the proposal that thought has its highest ethical function when it refuses wisdom in favor of 'asking a question that it cannot answer.' -- Peter C. Brown, Canadian Philosophical Reviews Praise for the French edition: Marc-Alain Ouaknin's book is a veritable gift for the heart and mind! ... [It] contains a radical criticism of the 'masters' who '[think] they control their language and the language of others.' -- Robert Maggiori, Liberation The gifts Ouaknin offers are many. His use of Kabbalistic thought simultaneously offers profound insight into the nature of the book and illuminates the concepts used... He offers multiple, useful paths forward in the study of the book, narrative, reading practices, community formation, religious thought, and the Talmud itself. -- Journal of Communication

This remarkable book ... is rich in suggestive ideas, including the proposal that thought has its highest ethical function when it refuses wisdom in favor of 'asking a question that it cannot answer.' -- Peter C. Brown Canadian Philosophical Reviews Praise for the French edition: Marc-Alain Ouaknin's book is a veritable gift for the heart and mind! ... [It] contains a radical criticism of the 'masters' who '[think] they control their language and the language of others.' -- Robert Maggiori Liberation The gifts Ouaknin offers are many. His use of Kabbalistic thought simultaneously offers profound insight into the nature of the book and illuminates the concepts used... He offers multiple, useful paths forward in the study of the book, narrative, reading practices, community formation, religious thought, and the Talmud itself. Journal of Communication

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Marc-Alain Ouaknin, a professor of comparative literature at the University of Bar-Ilan in Israel, is a rabbi and has a doctorate in philosophy. He teaches Talmudic philosophy and directs the Center of Jewish Research and Studies in Paris.

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