Arkady Kovelman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4230056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arkady Kovelman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arkady |
| FAMILY NAME | Kovelman |
| SIGNATURE | KOVELMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7648-154X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On the Contradictions of Reason
Статья заключает цикл эссе, опубликованных автором в 2020–2022 гг. и посвященных поиску смысла и цели истории, предпринятому европейскими, американскими и русскими интеллектуалами в разгар и по следам катастроф XX столетия. Поиск сопровождался растущими противоречиями рассудка и философскими спорами. Противоречия и оппозиции, лежащие в основе этого спора, не были ходами в художественной игре или ступеньками, по которым человечество карабкалос…
The Fear of Tautology as Esthetic and Ethic Category
The notion of the “fear of tautology” marks Joseph Brodsky’s poem “Notes of a Fern”: “But evil cannot befall a bad human, and the fear of a tautology is a guarantee of prosperity.” The poet thus inverts Socrates’ assertion that no evil befalls a good person. In the eyes of Brodsky, this assertion represented the epiphany of tautology. His viewpoint was that tautology is squandering one’s life trying to resemble and embrace the appearances and exp…
Brodsky and Clio
In the wake of mounting disasters of the last century, poets and philosophers developed the notion of the total arbitrariness of history. In the wording of Karl Löwith, “the skeptic and the believer have a common cause against the easy reading of history and its meaning. Their wisdom, like all wisdom consists not the least in disillusion and resignation, in freedom from illusions and presumptions”. The Hegelian claim that history has an ultimat…
The Essay by Joseph Brodsky Homage to Marcus Aurelius as a Theological-Political Treatise
The “Shestov – Brodsky – Spinoza” triangle reflects the major philosophical adventure of the twentieth century – the demise and rebirth of critical reason. In his critique of Spinozism for eliminating the possibility of free will, Brodsky follows Lev Shestov, the most ardent opponent of Spinoza. In his two essays, The Condition We Call Exile (1986) and Profile of Clio (1993), the poet argued that human beings should stop being just “rattling e…
Ecstasy and Exodus in the Interpretation of Philo of Alexandria and Lev Shestov
The biblical tradition of Exodus and the philosophical tradition of ecstasy seem both incompatible and identical. The Greek “ecstasy” (ἔκστασις — “going out of oneself”) suggests possession, sacred madness, poetic or philosophical inspiration. In Plato and Plotinus, ecstasy belongs to the spiritual elite and is universal. On the contrary, the Exodus in the Bible is performed by a whole people — Israel. Ecstasy takes place outside of time, while E…
Around Pushkin
Духовность русской культуры ярко проявила себя в ходе дискуссии, развернувшейся среди пушкинистов в последней декаде XX в. В этой дискуссии приняли участие либералы и консерваторы, западники и почвенники. Все они обсуждали природу Духа. В центре спора были сложные взаимоотношения между Духом, Свободой, Законом и Беззаконием в художественном творчестве и в истории России. Одна за другой появлялись статьи выдающихся исследователей: В.С. Непомнящ…
Time and Evil in the Confessions of Augustine and the Talmud
To solve the aporia of suffering and evil, the framers of Bavli Berakhot as well as Augustine combined the idea of love for God with the notion of making the moment linger. According to Augustine, evil prevents man from praising God. Evil derives from perverted human will and poisons a soul. Instead of being distended between the past and the future, a soul should forget the past, concentrate on the present, and extend the present as much as poss…
“The Kingdom of God is Within You and Outside of You”. Semiosphere and the Matrix
Destruction of the Second Temple in Talmudic and Christian literature
Jews and Christians are thought to have differed in their understanding of the Destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70ce. While Christians believed that God thus punished the Jews because they had killed his son, the rabbis allegedly used vague rhetorical devices to explain the unexplainable. In reality however, rabbinic explanation was nearly identical with that of Christians. For both the Jews and the Christians, the Destruction me…
The Poetics of Talmudic Esotericism
This paper analyzes the metaphoric systems of Hagigah and Moed Qatan. We suggest that the notions of pleroma and kenosis , generally associated with Christian theology or Gnosticism, are the leitmotiv of Hagigah. God loves the emptiness of Israel. On the other hand, the emptiness prevents Israel from completing the eschatological pilgrimage. This pilgrimage (the Way) is the topic of Moed Qatan as well. The meeting of God and Israel ( moed ) is un…
The Talmud’s Pharmacy
This article reads Bavli Ta’anit against the foil of “Plato’s Pharmacy” by Jacques Derrida. This is not about finding genetic or generic similarities between the dialogues of Plato and the Talmud. Rather it is about following (in Derrida’s way) the chain of metaphoric/metonymic significations and dual oppositions. The tractate is built on dual oppositions between gloom and gladness. In this world, the righteous are destined for the light, while t…
Hidden Allegory in the Talmud
Hellenistic Judaism on the Perfection of the Human Body
The article addresses the relevance of the carnality/spirituality discourse in Rabbinic studies started by Daniel Boyarin. The author suggests that Hellenistic Jews were not deprived of an intimate regard of their bodily existence. To a certain extent that perception was rooted not only in the Psalms but in Greek philosophy (mainly stoicism). Hellenic appreciation of human self-esteem was transformed into the 'radical amazement' of the Rabbis. Ra…
Jeremiah 9
A Clarification of the Hypothesis
Continuity and Change in Hellenistic Jewish Exegesis and in Early Rabbinic Literature
A Symmetrical Teleological Construction in the Treatises of Philo and in the Talmud
"In a Place, Where There Are No Men…" Hatred of Humankind in Roman Philosophy and Early Rabbinic Literature
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"In a Place, Where There Are No Men…" Hatred of Humankind in Roman Philosophy and Early Rabbinic Literature
A Symmetrical Teleological Construction in the Treatises of Philo and in the Talmud
A Clarification of the Hypothesis
Continuity and Change in Hellenistic Jewish Exegesis and in Early Rabbinic Literature
Jeremiah 9
Hidden Allegory in the Talmud
Hellenistic Judaism on the Perfection of the Human Body
The article addresses the relevance of the carnality/spirituality discourse in Rabbinic studies started by Daniel Boyarin. The author suggests that Hellenistic Jews were not deprived of an intimate regard of their bodily existence. To a certain extent that perception was rooted not only in the Psalms but in Greek philosophy (mainly stoicism). Hellenic appreciation of human self-esteem was transformed into the 'radical amazement' of the Rabbis. Ra…
The Talmud’s Pharmacy
This article reads Bavli Ta’anit against the foil of “Plato’s Pharmacy” by Jacques Derrida. This is not about finding genetic or generic similarities between the dialogues of Plato and the Talmud. Rather it is about following (in Derrida’s way) the chain of metaphoric/metonymic significations and dual oppositions. The tractate is built on dual oppositions between gloom and gladness. In this world, the righteous are destined for the light, while t…
The Poetics of Talmudic Esotericism
This paper analyzes the metaphoric systems of Hagigah and Moed Qatan. We suggest that the notions of pleroma and kenosis , generally associated with Christian theology or Gnosticism, are the leitmotiv of Hagigah. God loves the emptiness of Israel. On the other hand, the emptiness prevents Israel from completing the eschatological pilgrimage. This pilgrimage (the Way) is the topic of Moed Qatan as well. The meeting of God and Israel ( moed ) is un…
Destruction of the Second Temple in Talmudic and Christian literature
Jews and Christians are thought to have differed in their understanding of the Destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70ce. While Christians believed that God thus punished the Jews because they had killed his son, the rabbis allegedly used vague rhetorical devices to explain the unexplainable. In reality however, rabbinic explanation was nearly identical with that of Christians. For both the Jews and the Christians, the Destruction me…
Time and Evil in the Confessions of Augustine and the Talmud
To solve the aporia of suffering and evil, the framers of Bavli Berakhot as well as Augustine combined the idea of love for God with the notion of making the moment linger. According to Augustine, evil prevents man from praising God. Evil derives from perverted human will and poisons a soul. Instead of being distended between the past and the future, a soul should forget the past, concentrate on the present, and extend the present as much as poss…
“The Kingdom of God is Within You and Outside of You”. Semiosphere and the Matrix
Around Pushkin
Духовность русской культуры ярко проявила себя в ходе дискуссии, развернувшейся среди пушкинистов в последней декаде XX в. В этой дискуссии приняли участие либералы и консерваторы, западники и почвенники. Все они обсуждали природу Духа. В центре спора были сложные взаимоотношения между Духом, Свободой, Законом и Беззаконием в художественном творчестве и в истории России. Одна за другой появлялись статьи выдающихся исследователей: В.С. Непомнящ…
The Fear of Tautology as Esthetic and Ethic Category
The notion of the “fear of tautology” marks Joseph Brodsky’s poem “Notes of a Fern”: “But evil cannot befall a bad human, and the fear of a tautology is a guarantee of prosperity.” The poet thus inverts Socrates’ assertion that no evil befalls a good person. In the eyes of Brodsky, this assertion represented the epiphany of tautology. His viewpoint was that tautology is squandering one’s life trying to resemble and embrace the appearances and exp…
Brodsky and Clio
In the wake of mounting disasters of the last century, poets and philosophers developed the notion of the total arbitrariness of history. In the wording of Karl Löwith, “the skeptic and the believer have a common cause against the easy reading of history and its meaning. Their wisdom, like all wisdom consists not the least in disillusion and resignation, in freedom from illusions and presumptions”. The Hegelian claim that history has an ultimat…
The Essay by Joseph Brodsky Homage to Marcus Aurelius as a Theological-Political Treatise
The “Shestov – Brodsky – Spinoza” triangle reflects the major philosophical adventure of the twentieth century – the demise and rebirth of critical reason. In his critique of Spinozism for eliminating the possibility of free will, Brodsky follows Lev Shestov, the most ardent opponent of Spinoza. In his two essays, The Condition We Call Exile (1986) and Profile of Clio (1993), the poet argued that human beings should stop being just “rattling e…
Ecstasy and Exodus in the Interpretation of Philo of Alexandria and Lev Shestov
The biblical tradition of Exodus and the philosophical tradition of ecstasy seem both incompatible and identical. The Greek “ecstasy” (ἔκστασις — “going out of oneself”) suggests possession, sacred madness, poetic or philosophical inspiration. In Plato and Plotinus, ecstasy belongs to the spiritual elite and is universal. On the contrary, the Exodus in the Bible is performed by a whole people — Israel. Ecstasy takes place outside of time, while E…
On the Contradictions of Reason
Статья заключает цикл эссе, опубликованных автором в 2020–2022 гг. и посвященных поиску смысла и цели истории, предпринятому европейскими, американскими и русскими интеллектуалами в разгар и по следам катастроф XX столетия. Поиск сопровождался растущими противоречиями рассудка и философскими спорами. Противоречия и оппозиции, лежащие в основе этого спора, не были ходами в художественной игре или ступеньками, по которым человечество карабкалос…
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