Book contents
- Heidegger and His Jewish Reception
- Heidegger and His Jewish Reception
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Herkunft and Zukunft: Heidegger, Christianity, and Secularization
- 2 Kant’s Legacy and New Thinking: Heidegger, Cassirer, and Rosenzweig
- 3 A Christian Anthropology? Early Jewish Readings of Sein und Zeit
- 4 Dwelling Prophetically: Martin Buber’s Response to Heidegger
- 5 The Destruktion of Jerusalem: Leo Strauss on Heidegger
- 6 God, Being, Pathos: Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Theological Rejoinder to Heidegger
- 7 Uprooting Paganism: Emmanuel Levinas Faces Heidegger
- Conclusion Which God Will Save Us? Heidegger and Judaism
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Kant’s Legacy and New Thinking: Heidegger, Cassirer, and Rosenzweig
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2020
- Heidegger and His Jewish Reception
- Heidegger and His Jewish Reception
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Herkunft and Zukunft: Heidegger, Christianity, and Secularization
- 2 Kant’s Legacy and New Thinking: Heidegger, Cassirer, and Rosenzweig
- 3 A Christian Anthropology? Early Jewish Readings of Sein und Zeit
- 4 Dwelling Prophetically: Martin Buber’s Response to Heidegger
- 5 The Destruktion of Jerusalem: Leo Strauss on Heidegger
- 6 God, Being, Pathos: Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Theological Rejoinder to Heidegger
- 7 Uprooting Paganism: Emmanuel Levinas Faces Heidegger
- Conclusion Which God Will Save Us? Heidegger and Judaism
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
When Sein und Zeit appeared, it was hardly an isolated work of philosophy. Self-consciously rebellious, it operated within a highly charged set of assumptions, values, and views in a crisis-laden cultural context in which philosophy, theology, and politics were tensely intertwined. As noted in the introduction, the world this work rebelled against was, inter alia, represented by the philosophical idealism of the neo-Kantian schools that had increasingly lost their appeal in the minds of many younger students. From the perspective of the younger generation of Jewish intellectuals who sought to shake off the devitalizing legacy of the Enlightenment and embrace a more existential and expressive mode of thinking, Heidegger’s framework would be, potentially, an ally in their effort of revitalizing Jewish existence. However, while it is figures from this rebellious generation of German Jews who are often taken to represent the Weimarian intellectual and aesthetical world in the narrative of twentieth-century European intellectual history –
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- Heidegger and His Jewish Reception , pp. 48 - 90Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020