The eclipse of humanity : Heschel's critique of Heidegger / Lawrence Perlman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perlman, Lawrence (Philosopher), author.

Series:

Studia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; Bd. 91.

Studia Judaica, 0585-5306 ; Band 91

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972. Who is man?.

Heschel, Abraham Joshua.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Philosophical anthropology.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It has been widely assumed that Heschel's writings are poetic inspirations devoid of philosophical analysis and unresponsive to the evil of the Holocaust. Who Is Man? (1965) contains a detailed phenomenological analysis of man and being which is directed at the main work of Martin Heidegger found primarily in Being and Time (1927) and Letter on Humanism (1946). When the analysis of Who Is Man? is unpacked in the light of these associations it is clear that Heschel rejected poetry and metaphor as a means of theological elucidation, that he offered a profound examination of the Holocaust and that the major thrust of his thinking eschews Heidegerrian deconstruction and the postmodernism that ensued in its phenomenological wake. Who Is Man? contains direct and indirect criticisms of Heidegger's notions of 'Dasein', 'thrownness', 'facticity' and 'submission' to name a few essential Heideggerian concepts. In using his ontological connective method in opposition to Heidegger's 'ontological difference', Heschel makes the argument that the biblical notion of Adam as a being open to transcendence stands in opposition to the philosophical tradition from Parmenides to Heidegger and is the only basis for a redemptive view of humanity.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgments

Overview

Introduction

1. Are Philosophy and Religion Possible after Auschwitz and Hiroshima?

2. Amidst the Traditions

3. First Phenomenology – in the Cobbler’s Workshop

4. Dasein and Adam

5. The Eclipse of Humanity

6. Heschel and the Postmodernists: (Are the Demonic and Death Real?)

Bibliography

Index of Names

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110434187

3110434180

9783110435443

3110435446

OCLC:

939865710