Filozofija i drustvo 2020 Volume 31, Issue 4, Pages: 451-466
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID2004451N
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Worldly community and community of blood in the star of redemption: A critical approach from Helmuth Plessner’s anthropology
Navarrete Alonso Roberto (Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid), roberto.navarrete@ucm.es
This work offers a critical approach to Franz Rosenzweig’s conception of
community in The Star of Redemption based on Helmuth Plessner’s political
anthropology. First, it presents Plessner’s critique of social radicalism
and of the apoliticism of the German spirit, and its parallelism with the
Jewish spirit. Second, it delves into the passage from Hegel und der Staat
to The Star in a communitarian key. Third, it dwells on the difference
between community of blood and community of faith in Rosenzweig, together
with his theological-political translation into the distinction between the
eternal people and the peoples of the world. Last, as a conclusion, it makes
manifest the apoliticism of the Rosenzweigian proposal, and therefore, its
incapacity to give an answer to the political problem in Weimar, of which
its catastrophic consequences Rosenzweig did not know.
Keywords: society, community, politics, religion, blood