Kierkegaard und das ‚jüdische Denken‘: Die Rezeption Sören Kierkegaards in der jüdischen Moderne im Kontext des Orientalismus
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Joanna Nowotny
Abstract
Starting after 1900, there was an intense and fruitful discussion of the philosophy and literature of the “Christian author” Kierkegaard amongst Jewish intellectuals in many different fields. This raises the question of why and in what way Kierkegaard’s work became particularly relevant in the context of Jewish Modernity. The paper outlines some ways in which Kierkegaard could be appropriated into Jewish thinking, paying particular attention to the discourse of Orientalism. By assimilating Kierkegaard’s thinking to orientalist notions of “Jewish thought” that were constructed in opposition to “Christian” or “Western” thought, writers like Martin Buber, Max Brod, Gershom Scholem or Lev Shestov see him as a mediator between Judaism and Christianity, or, in more extreme cases, explicitly claim him as “Jewish.” The Jewish reception of Kierkegaard therefore gives prime examples of how differences between “Jewish” and “Christian” thinking get constructed through debates concerned with identity.
© 2016 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard: Problems and Perspectives
- Kierkegaard on the Power of Love and Despair
- Geglaubte Verzweiflung: Wider eine atheistische Lesart Kierkegaards und ihre Ursächlichkeits-Rhetorik
- A Figurative Necessity in Dealing with Selfhood in Kierkegaard’s Thinking
- Kierkegaard as an Antimodern Moralist: Re-Thinking “Socio-Political” Categories in Recent Kierkegaard Scholarship
- Fertile Contradictions: A Reconsideration of “The Seducer’s Diary”
- On Separation as the Condition for All Existential Ethics
- Reue als Schlüssel zur existentiellen Selbstwerdung. Überlegungen im Anschluss an Kierkegaards Beichtrede von 1847
- Section 2: Source-Work Studies
- Schleiermacher in the Kierkegaardian Project: Between Socratic Ignorance and Second Immediacy
- The Monumental Task of Kierkegaard’s Attack upon Christendom
- Section 3: Kierkegaard Reception
- Faith in the Mode of Absence: Kierkegaard’s Jewish Readers in 1930s France (Rachel Bespaloff, Benjamin Fondane, Lev Shestov, and Jean Wahl)
- Gesellschaft und Kritische Philosophie. Kierkegaards und Jaspers’ Analyse der geistigen Situation Europas im Vergleich
- Kierkegaard und das ‚jüdische Denken‘: Die Rezeption Sören Kierkegaards in der jüdischen Moderne im Kontext des Orientalismus
- La puissance du don. Le don comme centre de la relation de l’homme avec Dieu, dans les discours édifiants de Kierkegaard, à la lumière de l’herméneutique du don de Jean Paul II
- Martin Heidegger Reads Søren Kierkegaard – or What Did He Actually Read?
- Section 4: Primary Texts in Translation
- Andreas Frederik Beck’s Review of Philosophical Fragments
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard: Problems and Perspectives
- Kierkegaard on the Power of Love and Despair
- Geglaubte Verzweiflung: Wider eine atheistische Lesart Kierkegaards und ihre Ursächlichkeits-Rhetorik
- A Figurative Necessity in Dealing with Selfhood in Kierkegaard’s Thinking
- Kierkegaard as an Antimodern Moralist: Re-Thinking “Socio-Political” Categories in Recent Kierkegaard Scholarship
- Fertile Contradictions: A Reconsideration of “The Seducer’s Diary”
- On Separation as the Condition for All Existential Ethics
- Reue als Schlüssel zur existentiellen Selbstwerdung. Überlegungen im Anschluss an Kierkegaards Beichtrede von 1847
- Section 2: Source-Work Studies
- Schleiermacher in the Kierkegaardian Project: Between Socratic Ignorance and Second Immediacy
- The Monumental Task of Kierkegaard’s Attack upon Christendom
- Section 3: Kierkegaard Reception
- Faith in the Mode of Absence: Kierkegaard’s Jewish Readers in 1930s France (Rachel Bespaloff, Benjamin Fondane, Lev Shestov, and Jean Wahl)
- Gesellschaft und Kritische Philosophie. Kierkegaards und Jaspers’ Analyse der geistigen Situation Europas im Vergleich
- Kierkegaard und das ‚jüdische Denken‘: Die Rezeption Sören Kierkegaards in der jüdischen Moderne im Kontext des Orientalismus
- La puissance du don. Le don comme centre de la relation de l’homme avec Dieu, dans les discours édifiants de Kierkegaard, à la lumière de l’herméneutique du don de Jean Paul II
- Martin Heidegger Reads Søren Kierkegaard – or What Did He Actually Read?
- Section 4: Primary Texts in Translation
- Andreas Frederik Beck’s Review of Philosophical Fragments
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
