"Into Life." Franz Rosenzweig on Knowledge, Aesthetics, and Politics

Antonios Kalatzis (PhD Berlin, 2014) is a research associate at the Centre Marc Bloch for Humanities and Social Sciences in Berlin. He has published contributions on German Idealism and on German-Jewish Philosophy. Enrico Lucca (PhD Milan, 2012) is a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History — Simon Dubnow in Leipzig. He has published contributions on European Jewish thought and on the history of Jewish cultural institutions in Mandate Palestine.

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

  Antonios Kalatzis and Enrico Lucca



PART 1

Epistemologybr/>


1 Translating, Interpreting the Bible, Fighting Satan

 Rosenzweig, Scholem, and the End of Their Correspondence (with Three Unpublished Letters from Scholem to Rosenzweig)

  Enrico Lucca



2 From Jena to Jerusalem — Judaism as a Method

  Gesine Palmer



3 Content, Form and Method in the Star of Redemption’s “New Theological Rationalism”

  Roy Amir



4 The Ins and Outs of Rosenzweig’s Religious Epistemology from the Perspective of 21st Century Theological Reflection

  Cass Fisher



PART 2

Aesthetics



5 Episodic Genius

 Autonomous Artistic Agency in the Star of Redemption

  Antonios Kalatzis



6 “Art Must Become Pious or End”

 Franz Rosenzweig’s Aesthetic Theory of Heteronomy

  Christoph Kasten



7 To Affirm the World

 Realist Ontology and Aesthetics in Franz Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption and Stanley Cavell’s the World Viewed

  Bruce Rosenstock



part 3

Politics

8 Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig on Individuality and Moral Agency

  Beate Ulrike La Sala



9 Franz Rosenzweig’s Writings on War Politics, History, and the Globalization of the World

  Roberto Navarrete Alonso



10 From State to Star Contemporary Reflections on Franz Rosenzweig’s Journey from History to Identity

  Eveline Goodman-Thau



11 Nomadism, Homelessness, and the Homecoming of the Poet Rosenzweig and Heidegger in Conversation

  Elliot R. Wolfson



Index of Names