ABSTRACT The prevailing interpretation of the relationship between Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Heidegger frames it in terms of an opposition between theism and atheism, according to which Rosenzweig’s purported interpersonal ethics rooted in divine revelation exposes Heidegger’s deficient grasp of the interpersonal and the ethical. This article argues for a different framing, one that reveals Rosenzweig’s more radical contribution to philosophy as well as a more significant convergence with Heid…
Read moreABSTRACT The prevailing interpretation of the relationship between Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Heidegger frames it in terms of an opposition between theism and atheism, according to which Rosenzweig’s purported interpersonal ethics rooted in divine revelation exposes Heidegger’s deficient grasp of the interpersonal and the ethical. This article argues for a different framing, one that reveals Rosenzweig’s more radical contribution to philosophy as well as a more significant convergence with Heidegger. By examining Rosenzweig’s and Heidegger’s respective reappropriations of Paul, the article offers a reading of eternity in both thinkers not as supratemporality but as the sudden temporalization in the Augenblick or kairos. This reading sheds new light on an ethical dimension emphasized in both thinkers, one that concerns less the anticipation and realization of the good than openness to what arrives in its event-character.
