Franz Rosenzweig’s Philosophy of Existence: An Analysis of The Star of Redemption

192 Pages·1979·5.727 MB·English

by  Else-Rahel Freund (auth.)

FRANZ ROSENZWEIG'S PHILOSOPHY OF EXISTENCE
Studies in Philosophy and Religion
Volume I
FRANZ ROSENZWEIG'S
PHILOSOPHY OF EXISTENCE
AN ANALYSIS OF
THE STAR OF REDEMPTION
by
ELSE-RAHEL FREUND
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V. 1979
Originally published in German,
First edilion, Leipzig: Felix Meiner. 1933.
Second edilion, Hamburg: Felix Meiner. 1959-
Translated into Hebrew by Yehoshua Amir (Tel-Aviv: Shocken Publishing House Ltd .. 1972)-
Translaled inlo English rrom Ihc German revised edilion by Slcphcn L Wcinslein and Robert
Israel. Edited by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr.
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ISBN 978-90-481-8256-5 ISBN 978-94-017-1603-1 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-1603-1
In memory of my dear son
SHLOMOH-GABRIEL FREUND
fallen on 4 Iyar 5708 (I3 May 1948) in Kfar Etzion
in the fight for Jerusalem, the eternal city.
The author wishes to express her gratitude to the William and Olga Lakritz
Endowment Fund in Martin Buber Studies, U.S.A., for providing a subsidy
towards this book's publication.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
A. SCHELLING'S POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY
a) Schelling's Development prior to Positive Philosophy 20
b) Positive Philosophy 23
c) Individual Problems 32
I. The Theory of Potentials 32
2. The Concept of God 37
3. Creation, Rational Philosophy and Paganism 40
4. History and Time 43
B. THE WORK OF FRANZ ROSENZWEIG BEFORE AND AFTER THE STAR OF
REDEMPTION 47
a) The Earlier Writings 52
b) The Later Writings 65
C. THE STAR OF REDEMPTION 79
I. Thinking or the Thesis 81
a) The Priority of Being to Thinking 81
b) The Construction of the Elements 87
c) The Concepts God, World and Man 94
d) The Significance of the Construction for the System 105
e) Rational Philosophy, Paganism and Creation 109
II. Faith or the Antithesis
115
a) The Act 115
b) The Realities - Creation, Revelation and Redemption 121
c) Dynamic Objectivity 129
d) Speech Thinking 138
I. Rosenzweig's Historical Precursors and Contemporaries 138
2. Speech, Faith and Thinking 146
3. Speech Thinking in Its Existential Character (The Other - Time) 152
VIII
III. Faith Thinking or the Synthesis 160
a) Eternity 160
b) The Configurations - Judaism, Christianity and the All 163
c) The System and Its Relativation by Revelation 175
INTRODUCTION