Winged Words: Benjamin, Rosenzweig, and the Life of Quotation /

Winged Words: Benjamin, Rosenzweig, and the Life of Quotation /

This is the first book to explore the role of quotation in modern Jewish thought. Weaving back and forth from Benjamin to Rosenzweig, the book searches for the recovery of concealed and lost meaning in the community of letters, sacred scripture, the collecting of books, storytelling, and the life of...

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Main Author: Sax, Benjamin E. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.

Series: Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy ; 35.

Subjects:

Jewish philosophy.
Jews > Quotations.

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Call Number: B5802.Q86

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Life of Quotation
  • 1 The Life of Quotation
  • 2 Phenomenology?
  • 3 Psychology or Archive Fetish?
  • 4 Just More Derrida?
  • 2 Myth, Language, and the Origins of Tradition
  • 1 Innerlichkeit and New-Old Beginnings
  • 2 Martin Buber and Innerlichkeit
  • 3 Innerlichkeit and the Hebrew Bible
  • 4 Buber's Hebrew Humanism
  • 5 Walter Benjamin's Challenge to Buber
  • 6 Benjamin and Nietzsche
  • 7 Benjamin and Goethe
  • 8 The Challenge of Lebensphilosophie
  • 9 Franz Rosenzweig's New Thinking
  • 10 Between Bildung and Anti-Bildung
  • 11 Rosenzweig and Nietzsche
  • 12 Conclusion
  • 3 Quotation as Heterodoxy: Walter Benjamin's Karl Kraus
  • 1 Benjamin's Essay "Karl Kraus"
  • 2 The Ur -Kraus: Benjamin's Early Move to Language and Origin
  • 3 Jewish Negation as Jewish Quotation: a Prolegomenon to Jewish Secular Identity
  • 4 The Life of Quotation in Benjamin's Kraus
  • 4 Quotation as Pedagogy: Franz Rosenzweig's Goethe
  • 1 The Jewish Goethekenner
  • 2 Using Goethe's Poetics Hermeneutically: Quotation in the Introduction of the Star
  • 3 From a Post- Goethekenner to a Premodern
  • 4 Das Geflügelte Wort (the Winged Word): Rosenzweig's Life of Quotation
  • 5 Quotation, Experience, and the Secularizing of Life
  • 1 Experience, Language, and Life
  • 2 Quotation, Experience, and Hermeneutics
  • 3 The Arcades Project : Quotation, Montage, and the Medium of Reflection
  • 4 Jewish Thought, Quotation, and the Secularizing of Life
  • 6 Quotation and the Liturgical Life
  • 1 Jewish Books, Jewish Worlds, Jewish Words
  • 2 Biblical Words, Living Words, Winged Words
  • 3 Biblical Words, Dialogue, Commentary
  • 4 From the Star to Liturgy to Life: a Forgotten Interlocutor
  • 5 Rosenzweig's Experience with Ismar Elbogen
  • 6 The Influence of Elbogen's Der jüdische Gottesdienst on Rosenzweig's Star
  • 7 From Scholarship on Liturgy to Philosophy and the Future of Judaism
  • 8 Liturgy as Polemic and Propaedeutic: Petition and Temptation
  • 9 Rosenzweig's Application of a Jewish Liturgical Hermeneutic
  • 10 Into Life
  • Conclusion: The Life of Quotation and the (Re)Invention of Tradition
  • Primary Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index.