Monthly Archives: July 2017

(Abstract Bodies) Balls or Columns or Cubes (Resurrection) (Maimonides)

Posted on July 10, 2017 by zjb

With characteristic confidence, Maimonides is here arguing against what he assumes is the false, nay absurd, notion that human souls would have bodies in the world to come. He thinks the world to come is entirely without nature and natural … Continue reading →

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Pagan Rabbis of the Mishnah (Jacob Neusner)

Posted on July 5, 2017 by zjb

Against history and messianic end-times, Jewish philosophy might want to take note that at the conclusion of a discussion of the Order of Appointed Seasons (Seder Moed) of the Mishnah, Jacob Neusner describes these pagan rabbis. Their world picture is … Continue reading →

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The Place of Connection, A Form of Relationship (Distinct But Inseparable) (Deleuze)

Posted on July 5, 2017 by zjb

How to sort through the relationship between this and that, the material and the immaterial, the political and the religious, art and everything else? The radical critical reflex is to start with and assert the value of one primary formation … Continue reading →

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Everyone Died & Went to Heaven Except a Few Passerby & A Dumb Little Dog (Upper West Side Ghost Town)

Posted on July 3, 2017 by zjb
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(At the Intersectional Left) JVP Targets The Bad Jews

Posted on July 3, 2017 by zjb

  Claiming to be a Jewish Voice for Peace, the activist organization gins up antipathy against Jews and Jewish communities at the intersectional left. What they leave in their wake is mistrust and rancor, broken relations, and a strong whiff … Continue reading →

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