Rosenzweig and Heidegger

Between Judaism and German Philosophy

Peter Eli Gordon

Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Preface: "Under One Tradewind" xix.

Introduction: Germans, Jews, and the Transformation of Weimar Philosophy /1

The Creation of a Tradition, 1. The Argument, 3. Early Interpretations of Rosenzweig, 5. Postwar Interpretations, 7. Rosenzweig and Levinas, 9. Rosenzweig and Heidegger: An Elective Affinity, 12. "Temporality and Eternity," 14. Judaism and Weimar Modernism, 21. Philosophical Expressionism, 25. Philosophy, Science, and Critique, 28. Metaphysics and the New Thinking, 32.

1. Toward Metaphysics: Cohen's Opus Postumum and the Origins of the New Thinking / 39.

From Metaphysics to Method: Kant's Theory of Experience, 42. Being out of Nothingness: Cohen's Logic, 47. Logic, Nothingness, and Negation, 48. The Kantian Moment in Jewish Thought, 51. Cohen's Religion of Reason, 54. Is Cohen's Argument Coherent? 66. Reception and Crisis, 69. System and Person, 75. The Birth of the New Philosophy, 79.

2. Hegel's Fate / 82.

Hegelianism and Lebensphilosophie, 85. Hegel's Theological Writings, 91. Rosenzweig's Hegel and the State, 100. The Eclipse of the Political, 110. Nationalism without Statism, 113.

3. Beyond Metaphysics. Rosenzweig's Star (Part I) / 119.

Style, Structure, and Method in The Star, 112. On the Difficulty of the Star, 112. Some Problems of Categorization, 132. Against Religion, 134. A Revolutionary Conception of Philosophy, 135. A Phenomenology of Religious Experience, 138. A Modernist Turn to Religious Origin, 142. The Argument of The Star, 143. "Frei von jeder Zeitgewalt": Schiller's Dream, 143. On Wishing to Remain in the World, 148. Metaphysics, Traditional and Modern, 150. Parmenides and the Errancy of Tradition, 154. Nietzsche, Atheist and Man of Faith, 159. Death, Nothingness, and the Ontological Difference, 165. The Hermeneutics of Life, 174. The Primacy of Practice, 182. "To Wrest Eternity from Time," 185. Eternity without Metaphysics, 189.

4. Redemption-in-the-World. Rosenzweig's Star (Part II) / 192.

Temporality and Collectivity in The Star, 192. The Forms of Life, 192. Historicism and Ecstatic Temporality, 194. The Ontological Priority of Community, 198. A Theory of Temporal Holism, 202. On Judaism and Christianity, 206. The Ontological Priority of the Jews, 207. "The Dark Sources of the Blood," 210. Community and Decision, 214. Exile as an Ontological Condition, 218. Rosenzweig's Star in the Shadow of Heidegger, 220. From Redemption to Authenticity, 220. Heidegger on Authenticity, 222. Terrestrial Repetition and Constriction, 225. Concluding Remarks, 230.

5. "Facing the Wooded Ridge": The Hebrew Bible in the German Horizon / 237.

Archaism as Modernism, 238. A Theory of Translation, 248. Translation as Ontological Retrieval, 257. Heidegger and Rosenzweig on Translation, 267.

6. "An Irony in the History of Spirit": Rosenzweig, Heidegger, and the Davos Disputation / 275.

Philosophy on the Magic Mountain, 277. Kant, Finitude, and Temporality, 279. The Creation of Reason, 282. Eternity and Anxiety, 284. Rosenzweig's Knowledge of Heidegger, 289. "Exchanged Fronts," 291. From Cohen to Heidegger, 294. From Judaism to Paganism, 300.

Conclusion: Germans, Jews, and the Politics of Interpretation / 305.

Rosenzweig's "Onto-theological" Legacy, 307. The Politics of the Apolitical, 310. Heidegger and Hebraism, 311.

Index / 315