Is the Human Being Redeemable? A Meditation on Rosenzweig’s Claim That Death Is Very Good
Abstract In this article I claim there is no contradiction involved in Franz Rosenzweig’s love of life and his apology for death: what he loves and wants us to love is the finite life , life offered in its finitude which should in the end appear as enough – that is, sufficient and fit for everything...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
Year: 2021, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-77 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Rosenzweig, Franz 1886-1929, Der Stern der Erlösung
/ Human being
/ Redemption
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BH Judaism NBK Soteriology |
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Finitude
B Franz Rosenzweig B Connection B Death B Redemption B neighborly love |
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| Summary: | Abstract In this article I claim there is no contradiction involved in Franz Rosenzweig’s love of life and his apology for death: what he loves and wants us to love is the finite life , life offered in its finitude which should in the end appear as enough – that is, sufficient and fit for everything we could want from life, redemption included. The beyond toward which death as the end gestures is not a promise of immortality, offering a transcendence in temporal terms infinitely prolonged. The will “to stay, to live,” of which Rosenzweig speaks in the opening paragraph of The Star of Redemption , is the drive characteristic of another finitude : desiring and investing in life, without, at the same time, wishing to prolong itself into infinity. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-285X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/1477285X-12341317 |
