The "And" of History: Thinking Side by Side in Rosenzweig's Imagination of Eternity
Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption culminates in an aesthetic configuration of simultaneous presences: world, man, God, creation, revelation, and redemption are viewed in a metahistorical side-by-side, connected by the "factualizing power of the And." But the idea of simultaneity,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
Year: 2019, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 60-85 |
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Rosenzweig, Franz 1886-1929, Der Stern der Erlösung
/ Time
/ Eternity
/ Simultaneousness
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BH Judaism NBC Doctrine of God |
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Rosenzweig
B simultaneity B Aesthetics B Time B Eternity B anti-historicism B Historicism |
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| Summary: | Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption culminates in an aesthetic configuration of simultaneous presences: world, man, God, creation, revelation, and redemption are viewed in a metahistorical side-by-side, connected by the "factualizing power of the And." But the idea of simultaneity, which is central to Rosenzweig's configurative thinking, belongs to the historical imagination as much as it belongs to the theological "breaking through the shackles of time." Rosenzweig's "and" belongs to both a tradition of cosmic-aesthetic historicism (Meinecke) and the philosophical reconstitution of time as a simultaneous perception. In the co-presence of all historical moments, history's hidden Gestalt, which only a people that is at once old and young can envision, connects the "and" of history with what Hegel considered history's end—its ultimate self-recognition. Eternity, then, means neither flight from, nor resistance to, history's naked fact, but the recognition of history's Gestalt as an image that "does not tolerate epochs." |
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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-12341238 |