Franz Rosenzweig and the systematic task of philosophy / Benjamin Pollock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pollock, Benjamin, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rosenzweig, Franz, 1886-1929.

Rosenzweig, Franz.

Physical Description:

xiii, 338 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Contents:

1 System as Task of Philosophy: "The Oldest System-Program of German Idealism" 14

I System and the Philosophy of Rosenzweig's Time 16

II The One and All 21

III System and the Dangers of Reduction: Jacobi's Spinoza-Critique 26

IV Kant's Groundwork for a System of Philosophy 30

IV.1 The Unanswered Question Regarding Kant's System 30

IV.2 The Systematic Implications of the Kantian Subject 35

V Absolute Act versus Absolute Being: Fichte's Self-Positing "I" 36

VI Absolute Idealism and the Systematic Standpoint of the "Program" 41

VII The System-Program's Lack of Systematicity 43

VIII System as Philosophical Program 48

IX Rosenzweig's Recovery of System as Philosophical Task for His Time 54

X "My Real Teacher in Philosophy": Excursus on Hans Ehrenberg's Early Project of System and the Neo-Kantian Context 61

2 "A Twofold Relation to the Absolute": The Genesis of Rosenzweig's Concept of System 66

I The Path to a New System-Concept 69

I.1 "System Is Not Architecture" 69

I.2 System as Dialogue of Absolute Monologues 77

I.3 Rosenzweig, Rosenstock, Weizsacker, and the "Coitus of Two Sciences" 83

II "A Twofold Relation to the Absolute": Rosenzweig's "Urzelle" 92

II.1 Nature, Revelation, and the Anamnesis of Freedom 96

II.2 Human Freedom in the System: Realizing God as the "One and All" in the "Urzelle" 102

II.3 Questions That Remain: From System-Concept to Star 116

3 Alls or Nothings: The Starting-Point of Rosenzweig's System 120

I Breaking Up the All for the Sake of the All 120

I.1 Fear of Death, Particularity, and the Argument over Nothing 126

I.2 The Particularity of Nothing and the Hope for the All: Rosenzweig's Alternative to the Systematic Starting-Point of German Idealism 136

I.3 The Particular Nothings of God, World, and Human Being 144

I.4 The Differential as Determinate Nothing: Setting Out on the Path to System between Nihilism and Idealism 149

II Factuality as Method: The Self-Generation of the Elements out of Their Nothings 157

II.1 God, World, Human Being: The Elements as Systematic Unities 157

II.2 Elemental Stability and Instability: The Need for Relation and the Threat of Falling Back into Nothing 169

III Excursus on Beginning in Difference 177

4 "The Genuine Notion of Revelation": Relations, Reversals, and the Human Being in the Middle of the System 181

I Reversals into Relations, or, How God, World, and Human Being Realize Themselves in Realizing the All 188

I.1 Elemental Promises in Need of Fulfillment 188

I.2 Reversals into Creation 194

I.3 The Factuality of Creation 201

I.4 Reversals into Revelation 204

I.5 Excursus on the "I" as Medium of Identity within the All 210

I.6 The Factuality of Revelation and the Limits of Factuality Prior to Redemption 212

I.7 Reversals into Redemption $$

I.8 Realizing the All: Redemption and the Futurity of Factuality 225

II Experiencing System from the Middle 236

II.1 The Human Being as the Height of Factuality: Reversals, Relations, and Experienced Actuality 236

II.2 "Already-Being-There": Experiencing Creation from the Middle 239

II.3 The Call to I-Hood and the Call to System: Experiencing Revelation from the Middle 240

II.4 Anticipating the Kingdom: Experiencing Redemption from the Middle 243

II.5 The Reciprocal Confirmation of Promise and Fulfillment 244

II.6 The Unity of the All and the Figure of the Star 248

III Excursus on Questions of Method: Factuality and Reversals, Thought and Experience 253

5 Seeing Stars: The Vision of the All and the Completion of the System 258

I The Immediacy of Vision as Complement to Discursive Knowledge: The Model of Intellectual Intuition 267

II Cyclical Time and the Visualization of the All 276

III Mirroring the All: Jewish and Christian Liturgical Calendars 283

IV Beyond Life? The Possibility of an Immediate Vision of the Redemptive All 297

V The All, the Star, and God's Face: Vision and Life at the End of The Star of Redemption 304

Conclusion: The All and the Everyday 312.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-329) and index.

ISBN:

9780521517096

0521517095

OCLC:

268793406