{"product_id":"in-the-image-2","title":"In the Image","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Image \u003c\/i\u003esets Jewish philosophy and contemporary aesthetics and art in conversation with Talmudic texts.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePulling 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. \u003ci\u003eIn the Image\u003c\/i\u003e explores the human and human viscera, sacred place, anthropomorphism, iconophilia, and cosmopolitanism as elemental forms of religious thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA new way of conceptualizing Jewish philosophy and religion, \u003ci\u003eIn the Image\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57257053487448,"sku":"9780253076106","price":100.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/in-the-image-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}