Esau's Kiss or The Sublation of the Jewish Figure of the Human into the Liberal Form of Consciousness
Liberal culture is positioning itself strongly against anti-Semitic attitudes: For liberal consciousness it would, indeed, be self-contradictory to recognize a fundamental distinction in the idea of humanity that allows for a devaluation of a certain figure of the human. Paradoxically, this leads li...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Jewish studies quarterly
Year: 2020, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 130-145 |
| Further subjects: | B
Anti-semitism
B Anti-judaism B universal culture B Jewish particularity |
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| Summary: | Liberal culture is positioning itself strongly against anti-Semitic attitudes: For liberal consciousness it would, indeed, be self-contradictory to recognize a fundamental distinction in the idea of humanity that allows for a devaluation of a certain figure of the human. Paradoxically, this leads liberal culture to a negation of Jewish particularity, letting its powerful anti-anti-Semitic stance converge with the anti-Semitic negation, coming from the opposite direction, of the Jewish existential position. The article argues that the liberal perspective unfolds a dynamic that systematically sublates the recognition of the Jewish figure of the human in its distinctive determination by Torah law as an authentic human possibility. |
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| ISSN: | 1868-6788 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Jewish studies quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/jsq-2020-0010 |