Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary

Glossator publishes original commentaries, editions and translations of commentaries, and essays and articles relating to the theory and history of commentary, glossing, and marginalia (catena, commentum, gemara, glossa, hypomnema, midrash, peser, pingdian, scholia, tafsir, talkhis, tika, vritti, zend, zhangju, et al). The journal aims to encourage the practice of commentary as a creative form of intellectual work and to provide a forum for dialogue and reflection on the past, present, and future of this ancient genre of writing. By aligning itself, not with any particular discipline, but with a particular mode of production, Glossator gives expression to the fact that praxis founds theory.



ANNOUNCEMENTS, EXTRAS

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The editors of invite submissions of COMMENTARIES for the next open issue, Fall 2010. Essays and articles relating to commentary will also be considered. Submissions may be sent through the journal website or as Word attachment to glossatori@gmail.com. Deadline: March 1, 2010.

Volume One now also available in print. Click image below. International orders HERE.

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The Future of Commentary: A Roundtable with David Greetham, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Avital Ronell, and Jesús Rodríguez Velasco

April 10, 2009, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City

Moderator: Nicola Masciandaro

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Vol 1 (2009)




Nous ne faisons que nous entregloser -- Montaigne

All our so-called consciousness is a more or less fantastic commentary on an unknown, perhaps unknowable, but felt text -- Nietzsche

Not system but commentary is the legitmate form through which truth is approached -- Gershom Scholem

ISSN 1942-3381