Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy
Angaben zur Quelle:
29,1 (2021) 57-77
Keywords:
Rosenzweig, Franz,
;
Jewish philosophy
;
Death Religious aspects
;
Redemption
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.
DOI:
10.1163/1477285X-12341317
URL:
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