Sergey Dolgopolski
Biographic Data
| ID | 1049537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sergey Dolgopolski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sergey |
| FAMILY NAME | Dolgopolski |
| SIGNATURE | DOLGOPOLSKI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9531-9238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
State of Homonymy: Israel’s Multiple Selves
This essay retrieves the homonymy of the name Israel in its modern and ancient contexts. Moving between the “Aristotelian” indissoluble homonymy in antiquity and the “merely semantic” and controllable understanding of homonymy in modernity, the essay draws intertwining trajectories of a history of homonymy in its connection to the homonym Israel in a longue durée , a long-term intrigue unfolding from antiquity to modernity, to be diagnosed in its…
Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity
From Between to Before: Unslatables in Rabbinic Thought Between Philosophy and Literature
This Special Issue seeks to explore the space between philosophy and literature, taking rabbinic thought as a site where these domains intersect, diverge, and mutually illuminate one another [...]
A Bicorp—Who I Was: How Many Head Phylacteries (Tefillin Shel Rosh) Should Conjoined Twins Wear
The paper renegotiates two regnant and interconnected modern assumptions, a reduction of forgetting to memory loss, and insistence on a self-remembering individual as the social atom, from which one builds molar and molecular social structures. In the article, a critical conceptual retrieval of the notion of bicorp extends beyond the doctrinal frameworks of rabbinic and patristic traditions to afford a heuristic scope in which to access the signi…
Instantiations of alterity: The goy as modern subject
This article offers an anthropological and theoretical-archeological comparative exploration of agency, responsibility, and alterity in the Late Ancient Iranian Talmud and its reading in contemporary Manhattan. The guiding question is how the classical rabbinic imagery and conceptualization of the "Goy" or "non-Jew" are implicitly recast in the modern framework of subjectivity, in a social context of quasi-traditionalist Talmud study. The specifi…
Talmud Today: A Politics of Forgetting
The article deals with the way in which the "theological" as the question of the Biblical G-d's involvement in the world, as in the Talmuds, and in light of Heidegger's thought about forgetting and forgetfulness (Verborgenheit and Vergessenheit), becomes a political question about the attitude of the Jew and Israel toward the Heimat. In Heidegger, forgetting is about beings hiding from the view rather than about a psychological or "subjective" pr…
Excluding from Humanity: Through United Bears to the Palestinian Talmud Today
This essay articulates a structural feature and difficulty in the notion of universal humanism: the mechanism of inner exclusion. First, by discussing the historical paradigm of membership in “Israel,” a conceptual–theoretical description of inner exclusion comes into view. There then follows a comparative analysis of inner exclusions in three discourses: schematic universal humanism, exemplified in the art installation United Bears, Kant’s unive…
Where Is the Palestinian Talmud Going
Where does the archive of the Rabbinic Rhetorical Schools in Sepphoris, Caesarea and Tiberias belong in the formation of modern subjectivity and humanity? In his archeology of modern subjectivity, Alain de Libera answers a similar question about Church Fathers to locate the beginnings of both (1) a modern human as a willing and thinking subject and of (2) Heidegger's critique thereof in the philosophical horizons of Western and Eastern patristics…
And G-d Created Wife: How Did the Modern Other Emerge
Asking the question of the emergence of the modern other, the paper explores the inversion of relationships between wife and woman, husband and man in an archeological analysis of a Talmudic reading by Emmanuel Levinas "And God Created Woman." The theoretical framework of inquiry focuses on the development of relationships between the human on the one hand and the thinking and acting subject on the other. The guiding question is that of defining …
Who Thinks in the Talmud
This article traces a historical shift, and in particular its erasure from memory on the intellectual map of the West, in concepts of subjectivity across practices of rabbinic thinking in late antiquity, medieval interpretations of the Talmud, and modern talmudic scholarship. I first introduce a comparative perspective that relies on a mutual hermeneutics of philosophical and talmudic traditions. I consequently engage with Alain de Libera's archa…
What Is Talmud?: The Art of Disagreement
What Is Talmud: The Art of Disagreement
True disagreements are hard to achieve, and even harder to maintain, for the ghost of final agreement constantly haunts them. The Babylonian Talmud, however, escapes from that ghost of agreement, and provokes unsettling questions: Are there any conditions under which disagreement might constitute a genuine relationship between minds? Are disagreements always only temporary steps toward final agreement? Must a community of disagreement always impl…
Talmud Today: A Politics of Forgetting
The article deals with the way in which the "theological" as the question of the Biblical G-d's involvement in the world, as in the Talmuds, and in light of Heidegger's thought about forgetting and forgetfulness (Verborgenheit and Vergessenheit), becomes a political question about the attitude of the Jew and Israel toward the Heimat. In Heidegger, forgetting is about beings hiding from the view rather than about a psychological or "subjective" pr…
Where Is the Palestinian Talmud Going
Where does the archive of the Rabbinic Rhetorical Schools in Sepphoris, Caesarea and Tiberias belong in the formation of modern subjectivity and humanity? In his archeology of modern subjectivity, Alain de Libera answers a similar question about Church Fathers to locate the beginnings of both (1) a modern human as a willing and thinking subject and of (2) Heidegger's critique thereof in the philosophical horizons of Western and Eastern patristics…
What Is Talmud?: The Art of Disagreement
What Is Talmud: The Art of Disagreement
True disagreements are hard to achieve, and even harder to maintain, for the ghost of final agreement constantly haunts them. The Babylonian Talmud, however, escapes from that ghost of agreement, and provokes unsettling questions: Are there any conditions under which disagreement might constitute a genuine relationship between minds? Are disagreements always only temporary steps toward final agreement? Must a community of disagreement always impl…
Who Thinks in the Talmud
This article traces a historical shift, and in particular its erasure from memory on the intellectual map of the West, in concepts of subjectivity across practices of rabbinic thinking in late antiquity, medieval interpretations of the Talmud, and modern talmudic scholarship. I first introduce a comparative perspective that relies on a mutual hermeneutics of philosophical and talmudic traditions. I consequently engage with Alain de Libera's archa…
Excluding from Humanity: Through United Bears to the Palestinian Talmud Today
This essay articulates a structural feature and difficulty in the notion of universal humanism: the mechanism of inner exclusion. First, by discussing the historical paradigm of membership in “Israel,” a conceptual–theoretical description of inner exclusion comes into view. There then follows a comparative analysis of inner exclusions in three discourses: schematic universal humanism, exemplified in the art installation United Bears, Kant’s unive…
Where Is the Palestinian Talmud Going
Where does the archive of the Rabbinic Rhetorical Schools in Sepphoris, Caesarea and Tiberias belong in the formation of modern subjectivity and humanity? In his archeology of modern subjectivity, Alain de Libera answers a similar question about Church Fathers to locate the beginnings of both (1) a modern human as a willing and thinking subject and of (2) Heidegger's critique thereof in the philosophical horizons of Western and Eastern patristics…
And G-d Created Wife: How Did the Modern Other Emerge
Asking the question of the emergence of the modern other, the paper explores the inversion of relationships between wife and woman, husband and man in an archeological analysis of a Talmudic reading by Emmanuel Levinas "And God Created Woman." The theoretical framework of inquiry focuses on the development of relationships between the human on the one hand and the thinking and acting subject on the other. The guiding question is that of defining …
Instantiations of alterity: The goy as modern subject
This article offers an anthropological and theoretical-archeological comparative exploration of agency, responsibility, and alterity in the Late Ancient Iranian Talmud and its reading in contemporary Manhattan. The guiding question is how the classical rabbinic imagery and conceptualization of the "Goy" or "non-Jew" are implicitly recast in the modern framework of subjectivity, in a social context of quasi-traditionalist Talmud study. The specifi…
Talmud Today: A Politics of Forgetting
The article deals with the way in which the "theological" as the question of the Biblical G-d's involvement in the world, as in the Talmuds, and in light of Heidegger's thought about forgetting and forgetfulness (Verborgenheit and Vergessenheit), becomes a political question about the attitude of the Jew and Israel toward the Heimat. In Heidegger, forgetting is about beings hiding from the view rather than about a psychological or "subjective" pr…
A Bicorp—Who I Was: How Many Head Phylacteries (Tefillin Shel Rosh) Should Conjoined Twins Wear
The paper renegotiates two regnant and interconnected modern assumptions, a reduction of forgetting to memory loss, and insistence on a self-remembering individual as the social atom, from which one builds molar and molecular social structures. In the article, a critical conceptual retrieval of the notion of bicorp extends beyond the doctrinal frameworks of rabbinic and patristic traditions to afford a heuristic scope in which to access the signi…
State of Homonymy: Israel’s Multiple Selves
This essay retrieves the homonymy of the name Israel in its modern and ancient contexts. Moving between the “Aristotelian” indissoluble homonymy in antiquity and the “merely semantic” and controllable understanding of homonymy in modernity, the essay draws intertwining trajectories of a history of homonymy in its connection to the homonym Israel in a longue durée , a long-term intrigue unfolding from antiquity to modernity, to be diagnosed in its…
Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity
From Between to Before: Unslatables in Rabbinic Thought Between Philosophy and Literature
This Special Issue seeks to explore the space between philosophy and literature, taking rabbinic thought as a site where these domains intersect, diverge, and mutually illuminate one another [...]
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (5 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (4 works) · Judaism (4 works) · Subjectivity (4 works) · Talmud (4 works)