Although Franz Rosenzweig is arguably the most important Jewish
philosopher of the twentieth century, his thought remains little
understood. Here, Leora Batnitzky argues that Rosenzweig's
redirection of German-Jewish ethical monotheism anticipates and
challenges contemporary trends in religious studies, ethics,
philosophy, anthropology, theology, and biblical studies.
This text, which captures the hermeneutical movement of
Rosenzweig's corpus, is the first to consider the full import of
the cultural criticism articulated in his writings on the modern
meanings of art, language, ethics, and national identity. In the
process, the book solves significant conundrums about Rosenzweig's
relation to German idealism, to other major Jewish thinkers, to
Jewish political life, and to Christianity, and brings Rosenzweig
into conversation with key contemporary thinkers.
Drawing on Rosenzweig's view that Judaism's ban on idolatry is
the crucial intellectual and spiritual resource available to
respond to the social implications of human finitude, Batnitzky
interrogates idolatry as a modern possibility. Her analysis speaks
not only to the question of Judaism's relationship to modernity
(and vice versa), but also to the generic question of the present's
relationship to the past--a subject of great importance to anyone
contemplating the modern statuses of religious tradition, reason,
science, and historical inquiry. By way of Rosenzweig, Batnitzky
argues that contemporary philosophers and ethicists must relearn
their approaches to religious traditions and texts to address
today's central ethical problems.
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