Filozofija i drustvo 2012 Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages: 55-64
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1202055B
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„wäre er nicht mehr Staat“: Schelling and Rosenzweig on the state and beyond the state
Bojanić Petar (Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Beograd)
The surprising thing about “Das älteste Systemprogramm des deutschen
Idealismus. Ein handshriftliher Fund,” one of Rosenzweig’s best supported
and most carefully detailed texts, is that he almost completely ignores one
of the most stunning and mysterious fragments of this brief, two-page
manuscript that he discovers in 1914 at the Prussian State Library in
Berlin. Not only that: while discussing and justifying in detail every part
of this manuscript, attempting to prove that just because it is in Hegel’s
handwriting, does not necessarily mean that Hegel is its author, Rosenzweig
completely sidelines the famous, completely anarchistic, and radical
fragment about the state. My question then is, why does Rosenzweig leave out
any argument about Schelling’s understanding of the state? Or more
precisely, how have Schelling’s positions on the state been incorporated
and transformed in Rosenzweig’s texts? How does Rosenzweig use these
fragments? Why does he nowhere thematize Schelling’s thoughts on the state,
or what in eine revolutionäre Staatslehre Rosenzweig calls Schelling’s
revolutionary teachings on the matter?
Keywords: state, beyond the state, institution, Systemprogram, Jew