Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy
Angaben zur Quelle:
5,2 (1996) 297-312
Schlagwort(e):
Fackenheim, Emil L.
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Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Kurzfassung:
Discusses Emil Fackenheim's "To Mend the World" in terms of how to react to the rupture that the Holocaust caused in Jewish faith and life. He asks what should the Jew now do and what can the Jew now do, given the discontinuity with the past in the wake of Auschwitz. For Fackenheim, Auschwitz is always present. "To Mend the World" shows that "a post-Holocaust recovery is as possible as it is necessary." Examining Jewish resistance (for example, by pregnant women risking death by refusing to have abortions, and by ghetto fighters), Fackenheim concludes that resistance is possible now since it was actual then. The dilemma of contemporary philosophy is the inability of thinking to understand the Nazi evil. Thought, however, can "grasp" the horror of the Holocaust and must resist it by going beyond thinking into life. A new category is needed to shape post-Holocaust resistance and reestablish continuity with the past. Fackenheim suggests "tikkun olam, " a fragmentary mending of a shattered world, that both confronts Auschwitz and moves on.
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