Philosophy and the Jewish Question: Mendelssohn, Rosenzweig, and Beyond

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i n d e x Agamben, Giorgio, 248, 349n7 Almodóvar, Pedro, 306 Altmann, Alexander, 247, 306, 326n6, 330n11 Ameriks, Karl, 344n11 Arendt, Hannah, 27, 43, 44, 246, 270, 277, 278, 280, 318, 322, 327n21, 328n23, 330n17, 334n11, 346n26, 351n14, 351n15, 351n16, 351n17, 351n18, 352n18, 352n19, 353n22, 354n4 on the life of the mind, 67–68 on natality, 26, 151, 245, 250, 266–68, 276, 351n18 political theory of, 246, 250–51, 263– 69, 271–73, 279 Assmann, Jan, 171, 344n8, 345n12 Astaire, Fred (The Band Wagon), 27, 280, 295–97, 301, 303, 304–6, 309, 338n2, 354n4, 354n6, 355n7 Auerbach, Erich, 240, 241, 242 Austin, John, 49, 75 Band Wagon, The. See Astaire, Fred Barth, Karl, 139, 253, 254, 328n22, 333n11 Batnitzky, Leora, 5, 9, 11, 124, 131, 254– 55, 256, 326n7, 332n30, 339n7, 339n8 Bauer, Bruno, 90 Beiser, Frederik, 322n2, 333n9 Benhabib, Seyla, 328n23, 349n3 367 Benjamin, Walter, 248, 256, 351n18, 352n18, 355n7 Bergson, Henri, 335n24, 339n6, 341n23, 354n4 Bible. See Hebrew Bible Bienenstock, Myriam, 340n12 Blake, William, 90–91 Bourke, Eoine, 329n8 Boyle, Nicholas, 136, 137, 138 Buber, Martin, 4, 6, 8, 326n8, 326n10, 326n11, 326n12 Bubner, Rüdiger,, 327n18 Canguilhem, Georges, 258–59, 351n11 Capra, Frank, 291, 294 Cavell, Stanley, 26, 27, 251, 262, 263, 265, 268, 275, 276, 307, 308, 309, 318, 321, 322, 328n23, 329n5, 330n19, 331n26, 334n11, 335n28, 340n17, 342n25, 349n2, 351n17, 353n3, 354n4, 354n5 on acknowledgment, 20–21, 63–64, 277–78, 285–88, 300 on festive existence, 289–94, 301–9 on ordinary language and skepticism, 30, 65, 105, 280–84 political theory of, 246, 266, 278–80, 288–89, 294–98, 300–5, 331n26, 338n2, 351n17 on The Band Wagon, 295–97, 304–6 See also marriage/remarriage; redemption 368 Index Charisse, Cyd, 304, 305, 338n2 Chesterton, G. K., 346n29 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 91, 104, 321, 322n2 Cooper, Ian, 139, 348n9, 355n2 common sense (gesunde Menschenverstand ), 30–31, 116, 117, 119, 281–83, 311–13, 329n4, 337n39, 342n1 Cranz, August Friedrich, 38, 68, 72, 330n11 Daniels, Leroy, 304, 305, 354n6 Dault, David, 349n1 Deleuze, Gilles, 339n6, 354n4 democracy/democratic redemptive politics , 5, 15, 18, 19, 20, 26, 27, 43–44, 242, 244, 245–46, 247–48, 250–51, 257, 274–76, 278–80, 288–89, 291, 294–98, 301–9, 322, 327n21, 328n23, 331n26, 338n2, 352n22 and Arendt’s concept of natality, 26, 245, 250, 265, 268–69 in Spinoza, 250–51, 271–72 See also Arendt, Hannah: political theory of; Cavell, Stanley: political theory of; natality; political theology; redemption; state/sovereignty Depp, Johnny, 200, 310 Derrida, Jacques, 47, 48, 50, 331n20, 349n1 relation to Rosenzweig, 246 Descartes, René, 98, 99, 116, 126, 281, 285 di Giovanni, George, 80, 112, 326n13, 332n2, 332n4, 332n5, 332n7, 337n35, 337n38, 339n9, 345n13 Dohm, Christian Wilhelm, 20, 31–33, 34, 35, 78, 118, 329n6, 329n7, 329n8 Dunne, Irene, 303 Dunning, Stephen, 329n3, 343n6 Eisen, Arnold, 68 Ehrenberg, Hans, 139 Ehrenberg, Rudolf, 139 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 266, 267, 291, 298, 303, 331n26 enlightenment: Kant’s and Mendelssohn’s essays on, 28–29 and Freemasonry, 23, 56–58, 179 Judaism as embodiment of (Mendelssohn ), 20, 21, 48, 66, 68, 76, 77–78, 117 Kant’s theory of, 172–73 Lessing’s theory of, 56–59 Mendelssohn’s theory of, 29, 56–58 and the unrepresentable God (Reinhold ), 23, 175–77 See also Freemasonry; rational theology Erlin, Matt, 331n22 Fenves, Peter, 60, 62–63, 66, 331n28 Feuchtwanger, Ludwig, 343n6 Feuerbach, Ludwig, 90, 125, 338n4 Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 87, 89, 90, 92, 95, 96, 101, 102, 103, 106, 126, 158, 159, 160, 166, 205, 220, 221, 333n9, 334n13, 334n17, 343n4 Fonda, Henry, 287 Foucault, Michel, 28, 29, 31, 351n11 Frank, Manfred, 333n9 Franks, Paul W., 159, 325n4, 326n12, 326n14, 328n22, 332n7, 333n7, 338n4, 340n12, 341n20 Freemasonry, 23, 56, 169, 171, 174–75, 176, 178, 179, 180, 182, 186, 196, 345n16 Lessing’s writings on, 56–59, 170, 344n11 See also Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim; Reinhold, Karl Leonhard; Schiller, Friedrich Freud, Sigmund, 101 Frye, Northrop, 90, 91 Funkenstein, Amos, 50, 337n1 on German-Jewish philosophy, 1, 5, 9, 209 German-Jewish philosophy. See philosophy gnosticism, 87 in English Romanticism, 90–91 Index 369 Jacobi’s turn to, 81, 84–86, 95, 103, 147–48 in post-Kantian idealism, 89–90, 92 Rosenzweig’s overcoming of, 125, 338n5 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 130, 133, 134, 140, 142, 156, 157, 203, 340n10, 340n16 as ‘‘first Christian’’ (Rosenzweig), 135–36, 143...