The Eclipse of Humanity: Heschel’s Critique of Heidegger

Lawrence Perlman

Published by De Gruyter 2016

The Eclipse of Humanity

Heschel’s Critique of Heidegger

Lawrence Perlman

Volume 91 in the series Studia Judaica

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110435443

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It has been widely assumed that Heschel's writings are poetic inspirations devoid of philosophical analysis and unresponsive to the evil of the Holocaust. Who Is Man? (1965) contains a detailed phenomenological analyis of man and being which is directed at the main work of Martin Heidegger found primarily in Being and Time (1927) and Letter on Humanism (1946).

When the analysis of Who Is Man? is unapacked in the light of these associations it is clear that Heschel rejected poetry and metaphor as a means of theological elucidation, that he offered a profound examination of the Holocaust and that the major thrust of his thinking eschews Heidegerrian deconstruction and the postmodernism that ensued in its phenomenological wake.

Who Is Man? contains direct and indirect criticisms of Heidegger's notions of 'Dasein', 'thrownness', 'facticity' and 'submission' to name a few essential Heideggerian concepts. In using his ontological connective method in opposition to Heidegger's 'ontological difference', Heschel makes the argument that the biblical notion of Adam as a being open to transcendence stands in oppostion to the philosophical tradition from Parmenides to Heidegger and is the only basis for a redemptive view of humanity.

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Lawrence Perlman, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Overview Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Are Philosophy and Religion Possible after Auschwitz and Hiroshima? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Amidst the Traditions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
3. First Phenomenology – in the Cobbler’s Workshop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
4. Dasein and Adam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
5. The Eclipse of Humanity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
6. Heschel and the Postmodernists: (Are the Demonic and Death Real?) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Historians of Religion, Scholars in Jewish Studies, Theologians
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 205
Keywords: Heschel; Heidegger; Phenomenology; Holocaust

eBook

Published: January 29, 2016
ISBN: 9783110435443

Hardcover

Published: January 29, 2016
ISBN: 9783110441888