The National Element in Hermann Cohen's Philosophy and Religion

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-23260-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 554 g

Reihe: Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy

Hermann Cohen was a passionate philosopher whose national engagement was an integral component of his work. This national engagement comprised a cultural 'Germanness' (Deutschtum), ethically oriented to the state, and a religious Judaism beyond the political. These two forms of "nationality" influenced Cohen’s system of philosophy and his Jewish thought from his broadest to his most subtle points.

The National Element in Hermann Cohen's Philosophy and Religion explores Cohen’s views on World War I, Zionism, Jewish orthodoxy, assimilation, and racism. Then it looks at his system: logical dispositions of the idea of nationality, the ethics of the nation-state, and Cohen's aesthetics of national elements of expression. In connection with that, the study explores the Jewish dimension of nationality, a cornerstone for the concept of revelation and communal service in Cohen’s Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism.

Zielgruppe

Readers interested in German-Jewish philosophy and history, Zionism and Jewish diaspora, and in political theory. Researchers on system philosophy, neo-Kantianism, religious thought, and aesthetics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiedebach, Hartwig

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Philosophie, Aufklärung, Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
PART 1: BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE OF AN IDEA
1.1 Nationality as Plurality
1.2 “The Declaration against Zionism,” Emil Fränkel, and the trip to Russia
1.3 Just War
1.4 Against Anti-Semitism and Zionism (Martin Buber)
1.5 Assimilation; Race; Conversion
1.6 Law and Orthodoxy
PART 2: LOGICAL DISPOSITIONS
Preface
2.1 “The Judgment of Plurality”
2.2 The Narrative of Origin
2.3 Remembering reflection
2.4 “Allness” as law-of-thought
2.5 “Throwing to the outside” and the biological question
PART 3: NATIONALITY AS ‘PEOPLE OF A STATE’
Preface
3.1 People and Nation
3.2 The People and the “Fatherland”
3.3 The people and the history of the reformation
3.4 Authoritarian state and people’s state
3.5 Education for loyalty
PART 4: THE PURE FORM OF THE NATIONAL
4.1 “The moral preconditions”
4.2 The national significance of genius
4.3 “Comparison” as “Internalization”
4.4 “Internal form of language” and completion
4.5 The power of purity
4.6 National Forms of Poetry: Epic and Lyric Poetry
PART 5: NATIONALITY AS COMMUNITY
Preface
5.1 The tragic form of the action
5.2. The starting point of religious love in pity
5.3 Universal relations of the national consciousness
5.4 The Spiritual Existence of the Community
5.5 Atonement and Vicarious Suffering
5.6 The “Nearness of God” and Logic of the Origin
5.7 The secret of immortality
5.8 The “Merit of the Fathers”
5.9 The “Nations of the World”
5.10 Germanness and Judaism as National Correlation
Closing Overview

Über Autor(innen)

Wiedebach, Hartwig
Hartwig Wiedebach is Director of the Hermann Cohen Archives, Zurich. He is the co-editor of Cohen’s Werke and of the Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy series (Brill). His most recent book is "Kreuz der Wirklichkeit" und "Stern der Erlösung" (Rosenzweigiana 5, 2010).

Hartwig Wiedebach is Director of the Hermann Cohen Archives, Zurich. He is the co-editor of Cohen’s Werke and of the Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy series (Brill). His most recent book is "Kreuz der Wirklichkeit" und "Stern der Erlösung" (Rosenzweigiana 5, 2010).

William Templer is a widely published translator from German and is chief translator at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, University of Leipzig.