...This chapter focuses on the influence of the German-Jewish cultural, literary, and philosophical tradition on the author’s intellectual development, including close engagements with Franz Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption, Sigmund Freud’s Moses and Monotheism, and Hannah Arendt’s Origins...

... creaturely life culture wonder homeostasis normativity drives Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Winfried Georg Sebald Slavoj Žižek Robert Brandom Franz Rosenzweig I should say at the outset that I’m entering terrain in this chapter that makes me nervous, leaves me feeling the limits of my education...

... of Bible translation Dasein Fox Everett “Ich bin da ” Scholem Gershom eternity God Losch Andreas Baal Shem Tov Bible the hand of God the Nahman of Breslov Torah translators Der Ewige Tetragrammaton Lord The Eternal Eheye asher Eheye Moses Mendelssohn Franz Rosenzweig Adonai John Calvin...

... the origins of the most extreme forms of ethnic, national, and religious antagonism to the emergence of monotheism in the West. This book reads Sigmund Freud under the influence of Franz Rosenzweig—and vice versa—to offer an ethical conception of ordinary or “everyday” life implied by both men. It proposes...

... by it. What Schreber discovered is that symbolic investiture includes a kernel of invasiveness, that it can, at least under certain circumstances, introduce into the subject “too much reality.” Schreber's case provides a helpful backdrop for Franz Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption...

...Following Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling's lead, Franz Rosenzweig links the paradoxical materiality of the Other—his or her non-thing-like Thingness—to the enigma of human freedom. That is, when we encounter the Other in his or her singularity, we encounter that which in the Other contracts...

... religious experience time Cain citizenship cognitive disjunction Cohen Arthur A Soloveitchik Rabbi Joseph Ber Adam dialogue nishamah soul Augustine Saint atheistic theology Jacques Derrida Mordecai Kaplan Herbert Scheindau Franz Rosenzweig Joseph B. Soloveitchik Judaism as a civilization...

... Everett Glatzer Nahum Rosenwald Lawrence Scholem Gershom Martin Buber Bertha Pappenheim Franz Rosenzweig Jehuda Halevi Zeenah u'Reenah Die fünf Bücher der Weisung Glückel of Hameln Yiddish Women's Bible Leitwort Nachdichtung Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig . Die fünf Bücher der...

...Two disarmingly simple prose texts, one written by Robert Walser and the other by Franz Kafka, introduce readers into one of the central preoccupations of German-Jewish thinkers Sigmund Freud and Franz Rosenzweig. The problem is that of inhabiting the midst, the middle of life. In his short story...

...This chapter addresses Franz Rosenzweig's understanding of the work of redemption—the movement outward into the world on behalf of revelatory love—in the context of aesthetic artifacts whose importance to Rosenzweig, and indeed to his entire generation, is well known: the poetry of Friedrich...

...This book puts Sigmund Freud in dialogue with his contemporary Franz Rosenzweig in the service of reimagining ethical and political life. By exploring the theological dimensions of Freud's writings and revealing unexpected psychoanalytic implications in the religious philosophy of Rosenzweig's...

... ethnic patriotism Franz Rosenzweig Klamme Appiah Martin Buber post-traditional Jewish identities Simone Weil Many were the men whose cities he saw and whose mind he learned. —homer ¹ I am large … I contain multitudes. —walt whitman ² I’ve always been aware...

...Moses Mendelssohn attributed the desiccation of Jewish spiritual life to the eclipse of traditional Jewish learning. Talmud Torah. A century-and-a-half later his diagnosis would resurface with Franz Rosenzweig who founded a school of adult education to advance a renewal of Jewish learning...