In tyrannos! Political Theology and “messianic difference” in Franz Rosenzweig’s New Thinking

  • Roberto Navarrete The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Keywords: Franz Rosenzweig, messianic difference, political theology, secularization

Abstract

This paper deals with an elucidation of the theologico-political implications of Franz Rosenzweig’s relational conception of time in his work The Star of Redemption, the peculiarity of which expresses the concept “messianic difference”. Considered from the standpoint of the secularization debate, this messianic temporality offers a response to the verification of the Hegelian assembly of political philosophy and philosophy of history which, according to Rosenzweig, First World War represented. The consequent political disappointment experienced by the author of Hegel und der Staat led him to the pursuit of a Neues Denken determined by the ontological primacy of time as well as the unbreakable relationship which Rosenzweig established between “temporality” and “otherness”. Taking as terminus a quo the anthropological distinction between “personality” and “self”, i. e. between “ethics” and “metaethics”, that Rosenzweig presents in The Star, I will finally attempt to explore the various modes of temporalization that, depending on the relation to the temporalization of God and the world, are possible for the Rosenzweigian Self, as well as their related theologico-political aftermaths.

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Published
2016-04-08
How to Cite
Navarrete R. (2016). In tyrannos! Political Theology and “messianic difference” in Franz Rosenzweig’s New Thinking. Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 33(1), 207-225. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ASHF.2016.v33.n1.52295
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Estudios