Heidegger and His Jewish Reception

Herskowitz, Daniel M.

doi:10.1017/9781108886109

2020

DOI: 10.1017/9781108886109

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Heidegger and His Jewish Reception

Daniel M. Herskowitz¹

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Reading Heidegger against the Grain: Hans Jonas on Existentialism, Gnosticism, and Modern Science

Herskowitz

2021

Mod. Intell. Hist.

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This article argues that the link Hans Jonas drew between Martin Heidegger's philosophy and Gnosticism cannot be properly understood without taking into consideration his philosophical interpretation of modern science. It claims that Jonas saw Heideggerian existentialism not as a modern instantiation of Gnosticism but as a specific experiential reaction to the new cosmological outlook that emerged from the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, which negated the conceptual world that made Gnosticism possible. Jonas's interpretation is “against the grain”: by claiming that Heidegger's thought is a product of the reduction of nature to measurable, manipulable, and calculable extension governing the modern scientific mind, Jonas attributed to Heidegger the very flaws Heidegger critiqued in others. It is further claimed that Jonas's original contribution to Heidegger's reception history is not in proposing the link to Gnosticism but in reading him as the philosophical outcome of the instrumental reasoning of modern science.

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Reading Heidegger against the Grain: Hans Jonas on Existentialism, Gnosticism, and Modern Science

Herskowitz

2021

Mod. Intell. Hist.

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A Rebel against the Volk

Sharvit

2023

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An Ethics of Unseen Consequences: Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav's Sefer Ha‐Middot

Magid¹

2022

Journal of Religious Ethics

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This essay is a close examination of one of Nahman of Bratslav's early and largely unexamined texts, Sefer ha‐Middot. The question it addresses is whether one can call this a study of “ethics” or, in Jewish nomenclature, musar, a work that seeks to cultivate human behaviors and describe ethical formation. In addition, it asks whether Sefer ha‐Middot can be called a text of “virtue ethics” given its focus on virtues and their enactment. The essay argues that Nahman's peculiar metaphysical notion that all mitzvot are inextricably intertwined prevents any analysis of behavioral causality severing his “ethics” from any Aristotelian or Kantian tradition and brings him closer to Alasdair MacIntyre's notion of ethics as tied to traditional norms. And even with MacIntyre, the comparison is quite limited. Discussing “faith,” the “zaddik,” and “money,” the essay explores Nahman's view of how these and other virtues are cultivated and achieved.

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Heidegger and His Jewish Reception

Cited by 6 publications

References 189 publications

Reading Heidegger against the Grain: Hans Jonas on Existentialism, Gnosticism, and Modern Science

Reading Heidegger against the Grain: Hans Jonas on Existentialism, Gnosticism, and Modern Science

A Rebel against the Volk

An Ethics of Unseen Consequences: Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav's Sefer Ha‐Middot

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