Is the Human Being Redeemable? Consolation as an Integral Meaning of Rosenzweig’s Understanding of Redemption: A Blumenbergian Reflection
Abstract In this article, I test out Hans Blumenberg’s understanding of consolation as a pattern to interpret Rosenzweig’s “new thinking.” Drawing on Blumenberg’s philosophical anthropology, I explore the connection between the concept of redemption as consolation and the image of the human being th...
| Published in: | The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Rosenzweig, Franz 1886-1929, Der Stern der Erlösung
/ Blumenberg, Hans 1920-1996
/ Comfort
/ Human being
/ Redemption
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BH Judaism NBK Soteriology |
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Hans Blumenberg
B Martin Luther B Franz Rosenzweig B Georg Simmel B Redemption B Consolation B Philosophical Anthropology |
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| Summary: | Abstract In this article, I test out Hans Blumenberg’s understanding of consolation as a pattern to interpret Rosenzweig’s “new thinking.” Drawing on Blumenberg’s philosophical anthropology, I explore the connection between the concept of redemption as consolation and the image of the human being that it presupposes. I further examine the function of consolation in concepts and non-conceptual images through a comparison of redemptive consolation in the respective thought of Luther and Rosenzweig. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-285X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/1477285X-12341318 |