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10 - Rosenzweig’s Midrashic Speech-Acts: From Hegel and German Nationalism to a Modern-day Ba’al Teshuvah

from Part III - Modern

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2020

Steven Kepnes
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Colgate University, New York
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This chapter situates Franz Rosenzweig’s unique and influential contributions to Jewish theology in his Christian historicist and philosophical context of modern European civilization. Doing so allows us to best understand his theological contributions with the interdependent two-fold Jewish exilic tradition of interpreting the Torah as an engaged, dialectical response from the dual perspectives of the living Scriptural authority of their respective communities of faith and the non-Jewish and increasingly secular contexts in which they found themselves. The chapter unfolds as an interpretation that is based on Rosenzweig’s introduction of a novel methodological speech-act philosophy that he calls New Thinking which takes shape in the midrashic form of a messianic aesthetics. Simon claims that this approach enables Rosenzweig to set out a normative guide of teaching-as-practice throughout the entirety of The Star of Redemption, in order to bring the structures of the inter-related processes of Creation, Revelation, and Redemption into functional and dynamic ethical relations.

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Print publication year: 2020

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Selected Further Reading

Batnitzky, Leora. Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Benjamin, Mara. Rosenzweig’s Bible: Reinventing Scripture for Jewish Modernity. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
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Franks, Paul W. and Morgan, Michael L., eds. Philosophical and Theological Writings. Indianapolis and Cambridge, MA: Hackett Publishing Company, 2000.Google Scholar
Gibb, Robert. Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gordon, Peter. Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.Google Scholar
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Holtz, Barry W. Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.Google Scholar
Kepnes, Steven. Liturgical Time: Franz Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kepnes, Steven. “Liturgical Time: Franz Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption.In Jewish Liturgical Reasoning, 79130. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Levinas, Emmanuel. Totality and Infinity. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1969.Google Scholar
Neusner, Jacob. What is Midrash? And Understanding Rabbinic Midrash: Texts and Commentary. New York: KTAV, 1985.Google Scholar
Rosenzweig, Franz. The Star of Redemption. Translated by William W. Hallo. Notre Dame, IN, and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1975.Google Scholar
Samuelson, Norbert. A User’s Guide to Franz Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption. Abingdon: Routledge, 2010.Google Scholar
Simon, Jules. Art and Responsibility: A Phenomenology of the Diverging Paths of Rosenzweig and Heidegger. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wiesel, Elie. Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends. New York: Random House, 1976.Google Scholar

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