Lecturer in Social Psychology at Loughborough University: aesthetics, philosophy of science, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, art, tech, interaction
Nov 7, 2018 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
One reason the #EMCA analytic mentality & style of argument are sometimes seen as Jewish may be resemblance to the 'Litvak style' of Talmudic scholarship documented by Shaul Stampfer in "Lithuanian Yeshivas of the 19thC Creating a Tradition of Learning" liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/87939 >
This famously painstaking, detail-obsessed and discursive approach to doing analysis was first practiced in a Yeshiva in the Belarusian town of Volozhin, and became the dominant style of Talmudic scholarship across Lithuania in the early 19th Century en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volozhin_… >
