A User's Guide to Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption

A User's Guide to Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption
Author: Norbert M. Samuelson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2014-04-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317832450

This user-friendly guide will help students of the 'Star' to be able to discuss at a basic level what, at least conceptually, Rosenzweig intended to say and how all that he says is interrelated.

The Star of Redemption

The Star of Redemption
Author: Franz Rosenzweig
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1985-08-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0268161534

The Star of Redemption is widely recognized as a key document of modern existential thought and a significant contribution to Jewish theology in the twentieth century. An affirmation of what Rosenzweig called “the new thinking,” the work ensconces common sense in the place of abstract, conceptual philosophizing and posits the validity of the concrete, individual human being over that of “humanity” in general. Fusing philosophy and theology, it assigns both Judaism and Christianity distinct but equally important roles in the spiritual structure of the world, and finds in both biblical religions approaches toward a comprehension of reality.

Franz Rosenzweig and the Systematic Task of Philosophy

Franz Rosenzweig and the Systematic Task of Philosophy
Author: Benjamin Pollock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2009-03-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521517095

Pollock argues that Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption is devoted to the philosophical task of grasping 'the All' - the whole of what is - as a system.

The Jews as a Chosen People

The Jews as a Chosen People
Author: S. Leyla Gurkan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2008-12-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1134037074

The concept of the Jews as a chosen people is a key element of the Jewish faith and identity. This book explores the idea of chosenness from the ancient world, through modernity and into the Post-Holocaust era. Analysing a vast corpus of biblical, ancient, rabbinic and modern Jewish literature, the author seeks to give a better understanding of this central doctrine of the Jewish religion. She shows that although the idea of chosenness has been central to Judaism and Jewish self-definition, it has not been carried to the present day in the same form. Instead it has gone through constant change, depending on who is employing it, against what sort of background, and for what purpose. Surveying the different and sometimes conflicting interpretations of the doctrine of chosenness that appear in Ancient, Modern, and Post-Holocaust periods, the dominant themes of ‘Holiness’, ‘Mission’, and ‘Survival’ are identified in each respective period. The theological, philosophical, and sociological dimensions of the question of Jewish chosenness are thus examined in their historical context, as responses to the challenges of Christianity, Modernity, and the Holocaust in particular. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Jewish Studies, the Holocaust, religion and theology.

Norbert M. Samuelson: Reasoned Faith

Norbert M. Samuelson: Reasoned Faith
Author: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2015-08-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004305718

Norbert M. Samuelson is Harold and Jean Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Trained as an analytic philosopher, he went on to establish the Academy of Jewish Philosophy in 1980, which contributed greatly to the professionalization of Jewish philosophy in America. An ordained Reform rabbi, a constructive theologian, and a public intellectual, Samuelson has insisted that philosophy is the very heart of Judaism and that in order to survive in the 21st century Judaism must rethink itself in light of contemporary science. Through his scholarship and organizational work he has brought a Jewish voice to the dialogue of religion and science. Viewing Jewish philosophy as central to the understanding of the Jewish past, Samuelson has explicated the philosophical dimension of Judaism, from the Bible to the present.

"Into Life." Franz Rosenzweig on Knowledge, Aesthetics, and Politics

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Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2021-07-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004468552

The volume collects a series of groundbreaking new studies which delve into the work of Franz Rosenzweig and assess its enduring yet still unacknowledged value for Epistemology, Aesthetics, Moral and Political Philosophy, going far beyond Theology and Philosophy of Religion.

A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy

A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy
Author: Eliezer Schweid
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2022-11-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004533133

The last generation of German Jewish philosophers—the best known (Buber, Rosenzweig, Baeck, Strauss, Scholem) and the less known (Breuer, Birnbaum, Klatzkin, Guttmann)—are thoroughly explicated here with generous primary text citations appearing in English for the first time.

Legacy Of Franz Rosenzweig

Legacy Of Franz Rosenzweig
Author: Luc Anckaert
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9789058673725

A representative survey of the contemporary Rosenzweig research, gathering the state of affairs of the main spearheads of the research and it highlights the incentives for the programs to come.

Temporality in Life As Seen Through Literature

Temporality in Life As Seen Through Literature
Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2007-05-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1402053312

With a wealth of papers in its pages, this book examines that fundamental of human philosophy, the relationship between human beings and time. Having the human subject – the creator – at its center, literature is essentially engaged in temporality whether that of the mind or of the world of life through the creative process of writing, stage directing, or the reader’s and viewer’s reception. This text examines, among others, the work of Proust and Kafka.

The Politics of Immortality in Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg

The Politics of Immortality in Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg
Author: Mårten Björk
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2022-04-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1350228249

Highlighting the central importance of theological configurations of immortality and eternal life from 1914-1945, Mårten Björk explores the key writings of Franz Rosenzweig, Karl Barth and Oskar Goldberg to situate their ideas in relation to the political turmoil of the period, including the rise of social Darwinism, nationalism and fascism. The conversations happening among Christian and Jewish theologians and philosophers on the nature of immortality and eternal life during the period constitute what Björk calls a 'politics of immortality'. The speculative question of eternal life became a way to address the meaning of 'a good life' in a period when millions of lives were lost to war, camps and prisons. This book shows how theology was related to central political concepts and ideas of the era, revealing how the question of immortality pursued by Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg became a way to resist the reduction of life to race, blood and soil. By situating the exact political consequences of theological and metaphysical theories of immortality and eternal life, Björk's discussion of Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg confronts the perennial question on the relation between life and death and exposes the important connections between political theology and philosophical posthumanism.