TY - BOOK ID - 2766188 TI - Idolatry and representation : the philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig reconsidered PY - 2010 SN - 0691048509 0691144273 1400823587 9786612767012 1282767011 1400810930 9781400810932 9781400823581 6612767014 9780691048505 9781282767010 9780691144276 1400800382 1400800390 PB - Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press DB - UniCat KW - Afgodendienst KW - Afgoderij KW - Filosofie [Joodse ] KW - Idolatrie KW - Idolatry KW - Idolâtrie KW - Jewish philosophy KW - Joodse filosofie KW - Philosophie juive KW - Philosophy [Jewish ] KW - Judaism KW - -Philosophy, Jewish KW - Jews KW - Philosophy, Jewish KW - Philosophy, Israeli KW - Religions KW - Semites KW - Idols and images KW - Doctrines KW - Philosophy KW - Religion KW - Worship KW - Rosenzweig, Franz KW - Idolatry. KW - Jewish philosophy. KW - Doctrines. KW - Rosenzweig, Franz, KW - Jewish theology KW - Theology, Jewish KW - Rozentsṿaig, Frants, KW - Rozentsṿaig, F. KW - Rozentsṿig, Frants, KW - Rozenzweig, Franz, KW - רוזנזוויג, פרנץ KW - רוזנצוויג, פראנץ, KW - רוזנצוויג, פרנץ KW - רוזנצוויג, פרנץ, KW - רוזנצווייג, פראנץ KW - רוזנצווייג, פראנץ, KW - רוזנצווייג, פרנץ KW - רוזנצווייג, פרנץ, KW - רוזנצויג, פרנץ, KW - רוזנצוייג, פרנץ, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2766188 AB - 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. ER -