"Art and Responsibility is a sophisticated exploration of the ethical implications of the aesthetic and the aesthetic implications of the ethical. Simon explores this topic through a phenomenological investigation of the thought of Heidegger and Rosenzweig. Instead of producing an intellectual history of these thinkers, the author seeks to elicit the ethical repercussions of their philosophies of art through careful philological-textual analysis of their dense writings. The juxtaposition of these two seminal German thinkers has engendered a fascinating study that undoubtedly will provoke lively discussion and debate in the years to come." --Elliot R. Wolfson, Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, USA

Two German philosophers working during the Weimar Republic in Germany, between the two World Wars, produced seminal texts that continue to resonate almost a hundred years later. Franz Rosenzweig—a Jewish philosopher, and Martin Heidegger—a philosopher who at one time was studying to become a Catholic priest, each in their own, particular way include in their writings powerful philosophies of art that, if approached phenomenologically and ethically, provide keys to understanding their radically divergent trajectories, both biographically and for their philosophical heritage. Simon provides a close reading of some of their essential texts—The Star of Redemption for Rosenzweig and Being and Time and The Origin of the Work of Art for Heidegger—in order to draw attention to how their philosophies of art can be understood to provide significant ethical directives.
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Introduction

1. The Mask of Mephistopheles
2. Renewing Narrations or Chaos in Creation
3. Rosenzweig's Midrash as Philosophy of Language
4. The Messianic Aesthetic
5. Heidegger's Hammer: from the Workshop to the Work of Art
6. Turning through Phenomenology to Art and Ethos
7. Philosophy, Poetry, and the Absent God:

Final Words
Bibliography

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Compares the philosophies of Rosenzweig and Heidegger to elucidate their diverging ethical paths and to indicate philosophical consequences.
A comparative examination of the works of two important twentieth-century philosophers.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781441107848
Publisert
2012-10-29
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
431 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304

Forfatter

Biografisk notat

Jules Simon is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Science, Technology, Ethics, and Policy at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA. He is the co-editor of The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust: Salvaging the Fragments (Palgrave MacMillan Press, 2009). Professor Simon is on the editorial board and works as book editor for the Rosenzweig Jahrbuch/Yearbook.