Title: Judaism as the Other of Greek-Christian Civilization. Samuel Hirsch, Franz Rosenzweig, and Ernst Cassirer on Hegel’s Religionsphilosophie
Abstract: The article deals with three topics. First of all it considers the place the Hegelian philosophy of religion gives to Judaism as the Other in Christian-Greek civilization in the history of religions: it underlines the differences which characterize the Vorlesungen of 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831 with regard to the relationship between Jewish religion on one side and Eastern, Greek and Roman religions on the other, all of them superseded - according to Hegel - by Christian religion, and describes how Samuel Hirsch (1815-1889), a Reformer Jew, rabbi, freemason, criticized this place. Secondly, the article analyzes the main points of Hirsch’s Religionsphilosophie der Juden (1842): particularly it emphasizes the concepts of Judaism, Christianity and philosophy elaborated in this work. Finally, it points out how Franz Rosenzweig’s and Ernst Cassirer’s idea of a new philosophy, inspired by both the Greeks and the Jews, has a deep affinity with Hirsch’s proposal.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-10-11
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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