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Notes INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY AND ITS OTHERS 1. Elie Wiesel studied with Shushani at the same time and has described him, if ever so romantically, in Legends of Our Time, 87–109, and One Generation After, 120–25. 2. Les Cahiers, vol. 3, ed. Rolland. 3. Handelman, Fragments of Redemption. 4. Les Cahiers, vol. 1, ed. Olivier Mongin, Jacques Rolland, and Alexandre Derczanski. 5. Der Philosoph Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929), ed. Wolfdietrich SchmiedKowarzik . 6. The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig, ed. Paul Mendes-Flohr. 7. Mosès, Système et Révélation. CHAPTER 1 CORRELATIONS, ADAPTATION 1. Cohen, Religion der Vernunft aus den Quellen des Judentums, trans. Simon Kaplan as Religion of Reason Out Of the Sources Of Judaism. 2. See Tillich, Systematic Theology, vol. 1, esp. 62f. 3. See Husserl, Ideas, I, §90–91, in Ideen zu einer reinen Phänomenologie. 4. Cohen, Logik der reinen Erkenntnis. 5. See Steven S. Schwarzschild’s discussion of reason and correlation in “The Title of Hermann Cohen’s ‘Religion,’” in The Life of Covenant. 6. There are only five references to such sources in Totality and Infinity: three to Scripture and two to Rabbinic texts. At the same time, there are at least ten philosophers who are cited five times or more. In Otherwise than Being, the Jewish sources become only slightly more prominent, totaling twenty references (fewer than to Plato), but there Ezekiel and Rashi are the clarion call of the frontispiece . 7. “Between Two Worlds: A Spiritual Biography of Franz Rosenzweig” (DL3 253–82/181–201), and “Franz Rosenzweig: A Modern Jewish Thinker,” (HS 71–95). 8. In the preface to Stephen Mosès’ Système et Révélation (reprinted in HDN 175–85) and in a discussion with Hans Henrix and Evêque Hemmerle in Zeitgewinn : Messianisches Denken nach Franz Rosenzweig, ed. Gotthard Fuchs and Hans Henrix (part of which is published in HDN as “Judaisme ‘et’ Christianisme ,” 189–95). 9. Zeitgewinn, 173. See also EN 213–17. 10. For a survey of the Jewish mystical background to the concept of the face, see Richard Cohen, “The Face of Truth in Rosenzweig, Levinas, and Jewish Mys- 262 • Notes to Chapter 2 ticism,” in Phenomenology of the Truth Proper to Religion, ed. Daniel Guerrière, 175–201. CHAPTER 2 THE LOGIC OF LIMITATION 1. Hegel, Wissenschaft der Logik, trans. A. V. Miller as Hegel’s Science of Logic, 145/134. 2. Ibid., 155/142. 3. It is a recurring weakness in Rosenzweig that he underestimates the appeal of the uglier side of Nietzsche (and in Rosenzweig’s later years, of Heidegger). This is most graphic in his comment that Nietzsche was both poet and philosopher and that his personal style was the most important aspect of his philosophy: “Even now what he philosophized is all but a matter of indifference. The Dionysian , and the Superman, the blond beast, the eternal Recurrence—where are they now?” (10/9). Rosenzweig’s lack of foresight is not the central point; rather, the appeal to the irrational, as Nietzsche so well illustrates, is fraught with deeper political significance than Rosenzweig acknowledges—a weakness shared by some current reinterpreters of Nietzsche who again focus on his aesthetic style by ignoring his politics. 4. See Schwarcz, From Myth to Revelation (in Hebrew). 5. Schelling, Weltalter, trans. Frederick de Wolfe Bolman Jr. as Ages of the World, (citations to German only, as English includes German pagination) 212f. and 343f. 6. Schelling, Weltalter, 212. 7. “Das Neue Denken” (III, 148). “Schelling foretold a narrative philosophy in the preface to his ingenious fragments, the Weltalter.” See the opening sentences of Schelling for an obvious example of Rosenzweig’s wit: “The past is known, the present is recognized, the future is anticipated. The known is narrated , the recognized is exhibited, the anticipated is foretold” (Weltalter, 199). 8. Schelling, Weltalter, 223, cf. also 235, 253, and 309. 9. Ibid., 255. 10. Ibid. 11. Ibid., 309. 12. See Gershom Scholem’s discussion of the primordial contraction in Lurianic Kabbalah, On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism, 110ff. Also of interest is Jürgen Habermas’ discussion of Schelling and the Kabbalah in “Dialektischer Idealismus im Übergang zum Materializmus,” in Theorie und Praxis, 172–228 (not included in the English translation). 13. Schelling, Weltalter, 261. 14. Ibid., 302. 15. Ibid., 209. Cf. The Star of Redemption (33/30). 16. Ibid., 334. 17. Ibid., 209, 211, passim. 18. Ibid., 225. 19. Ibid., 319, 335. [18.223.106.232] Project MUSE (2024-04-25 14:39 GMT...