Rosenzweig on Human Redemption: Neither Nothing nor Everything, but Only Something
Abstract Despite Franz Rosenzweig’s unequivocal condemnation of Gershom Scholem, his own view of the world and the possibility of human redemption therein is in some respect very close to the nihilistic sensibility and its gnostic underpinning. Although Rosenzweig obviously did not consider himself...
| Published in: | The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Rosenzweig, Franz 1886-1929, Der Stern der Erlösung
/ Human being
/ Redemption
/ Possibility
/ Nihilism
/ Gnosis
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BH Judaism NBK Soteriology |
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Nothingness
B Finitude B Franz Rosenzweig B Apophasis B Gershom Scholem B Gnosticism B Truth B Nihilism |
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| Summary: | Abstract Despite Franz Rosenzweig’s unequivocal condemnation of Gershom Scholem, his own view of the world and the possibility of human redemption therein is in some respect very close to the nihilistic sensibility and its gnostic underpinning. Although Rosenzweig obviously did not consider himself either a nihilist or a gnostic, the latter term can well be applied even to Rosenzweig’s mature speculation in The Star of Redemption and other writings from the 1920s. In spite of his initial rejection of negative theology in the Star , the swerve of Rosenzweig’s path winds its way to an apophasis of the apophasis, a turn that is encapsulated in the astounding statement, “That God is nothing becomes just as much a figurative sentence as the other one, that he is truth.” |
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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-12341321 |