Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
"Into Life"
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021) 57-87
Keywords:
Rosenzweig, Franz,
;
Jewish philosophy 20th century
;
Rationalism Philosophy
Abstract:
The article explores the meaning and role of rationalism within Rosenzweig’s definition of The Star of Redemption as a “new theological Rationalism.” A form-content dualism is presupposed in the Star as the basis for the non-identity of thinking and Being. Significantly, the scientific character of philosophy is for Rosenzweig nothing but its formality, its heterogeneity to its content. Against this background, I argue that Rosenzweig appropriates Hermann Cohen’s transcendental method, which takes rational thinking to be an analysis and a reconstruction of a problematized object — a “fact.” My content is that this method is used in the Star to reenable the thinking of Being (content) from within the metalogical world. It does so by taking Being to be a problematic object, in the notion of God as the objective ground of the world. The philosophically presupposed fact of the Star is thus not Revelation, but the notion of a redeemed world, which emerges as the content of faith. This faith in Redemption represents for Rosenzweig a precondition for Revelation. I finally claim that this is met in prayer, which is the “form where Redemption can become the content of Revelation.”
DOI:
10.1163/9789004468559_005
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