Franz Rosenzweig

Rédemption, Rosenzweig procède à une analyse logique et grammaticale
qui s’achève avec le « Et », clef de voûte du langage vivant. À chacun des
niveaux où se place l’analyse de la conjonction correspond un argument
contre la pensée idéaliste. Celle-ci est accusée notamment d’être une pensée
sans langage (voire hostile au langage) et d’échouer à offrir un véritable
achèvement à son propre système. C’est le concept de dialectique qui est visé
ici, auquel Rosenzweig oppose le « Et » comme catégorie de la corrélation
(relation dynamique et vivante), de l’achèvement, mais aussi du langage dans
son rapport au réel. Dès lors, la question se pose de savoir quelle alternative
Rosenzweig offre au modèle hégélien de la dialectique et ce que devient
chez lui le concept de synthèse. Nous nous proposons d’explorer en détail
cet argumentaire anti-idéaliste et les questions qu’il soulève dans le cadre de
la philosophie du langage de L’Étoile.
– Beniamino Fortis, Between Scylla and Charybdis. The ‘new Thinking’
between Idealism and Irrationalism
In his essay Das neue Denken (1925), Franz Rosenzweig uses the Homeric
metaphor of Scylla and Charybdis to warn against the double danger of
two opposite, but equally one-sided, positions: idealism (Charybdis) and
irrationalism (Scylla). As is well known, idealism argues that ‘the real is rational
and the rational is real’, thus rejecting anything irrational that could possibly
threaten the soundness of this argument. On the other hand, irrationalism
focuses mainly on those aspects of reality that place themselves beyond
reason, relegating rationality to a marginal and secondary role. Based on the
conceptual model of conjunction– the ‘little word and’ –, Rosenzweig’s ‘new
thinking’ represents a sort of third way between idealism and irrationalism,
as it can account for both the rational and irrational side of reality. In my
speech I intend to show how this general character of Rosenzweig’s thought
finds its first application in what he sees as constituting the basic level of
reality: the three elements of God, world, and human being. Taking shape as a
combination of rational and irrational dimensions, each element bears witness
to how the ‘new thinking’ is able to go beyond the limitations of idealism or
irrationalism – that is, beyond the pitfalls of both Scylla and Charybdis.
– Gabriella Caponigro, Il valore avversativo dell´”und” e il problema
identitario dell´uomo
Nel “nuovo pensiero” di Franz Rosenzweig, la particella und è dotata di
un valore avversativo e concessivo oltre che congiuntivo. Questa diversità
di significato conferisce nuova luce alle correlazioni esistenti tra termini
opposti, soprattutto per ciò che concerne la costruzione del soggetto etico
e il problema dell’identità. Il contributo ripercorre il cammino speculativo di
Rosenzweig mettendo a fuoco le diverse elaborazioni di tali correlazioni, dagli
anni giovanili dominati dalla difficoltà di superare l’impostazione dualistica
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