Franz Rosenzweig

could become the headstone in a building, which would thereby become a
unified and closed system. But isn’t that a contradiction to Rosenzweigs clear
rejection of the system of idealistic philosophy? Or is the AND – despite the
first impression – indeed only the beginning of the process of redemption?
In following the text of the “Star” further, the path of redemption manifests
itself as a process of multiple separations, which find its expression in the
notion of the rest. Only by passing through the formation of a series of ever
new rests it seems to be possible to realize a kind of unity – or unifying -,
as well concerning the individual person as concerning God. The paper is
about to show on the one side, how Rosenzweig philosophically picks up and
continues here Hermann Cohens concept of separation and unification from
his “Logic of pure cognition”. At the same time the aim is to elaborate the
psycho-theological motive in Rosenzweig, crystallized around the AND, as he
puts it as a personal task for every individual to pass through the series of rests
by remembering or diving deep into the innermost part of oneself. Only then
everyone in his or her unique way can – according to Rosenzweig - realize the
unification of Man AND World AND God, which nonetheless remain separate.
February 22 – Parallel Sessions
Rosenzweig’s Reception – Aula II
– Ynon Wygoda, The Uniqueness of Rosenwzeig’s Reception in
Palestine 1936-1946
The aim of the present lecture is to outline the uniqueness of the early reception
of Rosenzweig’s thought in Palestine in the 1930s-1940s. The heart of my
lecture will center on the analysis of the yet unpublished lectures held by G.
Scholem, E. Simon, N. Gutmann, H. Bergmann, at the Salman Schocken library
in Jerusalem in 1936 and again in 1946 discovered in the Salman Schocken
archives and the National Israeli Archives. Through the analysis of these lectures
alongside contemporaneous writings of their authors and the comparison with
other early receptions of Rosenzweig’s works in other cultural contexts within
the same timeframe, I will show how questions of Rosenzweig’s idiosyncratic
readings of the Jewish canon, his emphasis on the role of Christianity and
(only finally) his critical stance towards the Zionist project and its significance to
modern Jewish liferendered Rosenzweig’s early reception in Palestine to stand
at times at the antipodes of his reception elsewhere.
– Asaf Angermann, The Broken “And”. Gillian Rose on Franz
Rosenzweig’s Conversion and Its Impossibility
In “Franz Rosenzweig – From Hegel to Yom Kippur”, Gillian Rose intends to
explain Rosenzweig’s idea of conversion and the impossibility of its realization
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