ISBN:
9781350094079
Language:
English
Pages:
xxiii, 287 Seiten
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Political theologies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bielik-Robson, Agata, 1966 - Another finitude
Keywords:
Derrida, Jacques
;
Arendt, Hannah
;
Rosenzweig, Franz
;
Freud, Sigmund
;
Benjamin, Walter
;
Jüdische Philosophie
;
Messianismus
;
Unsterblichkeit
;
Endlichkeit
;
Vitalismus
;
Endlichkeit
;
Unsterblichkeit
;
Messianismus
;
Jüdische Philosophie
;
Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939
;
Rosenzweig, Franz 1886-1929
;
Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
;
Arendt, Hannah 1906-1975
;
Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004
;
Vitalismus
;
Messianismus
Abstract:
"Beginning from the notion of finite life, Another Finitude takes this staple subject from post-Heideggerian philosophy and opposes it to the onto-theological concept of infinity, represented by an eternal absolute. Although critical of Heidegger and his definition of finitude as 'being-towards-death', this book does not revert to the ontological idea of infinity secured in the sacred image of immortality. But it also does not want to give up on infinity altogether; the infinite is transposed, so it can become a necessary moment of the finite life. A theological framework for the new elaboration of the concept of finitude is crucial; but instead of following the Lutheran formula, Agata Bielik-Robson turns to the sources of Judaism. Taking inspiration from the Jewish idea of torat hayim, the principle of finite life, which found the best expression in the biblical sentence: love strong as death; love emerges as the alternative marker of finitude, allowing to us redefine it in an affirmative way. By tracing the avatars of love in the group of 20th-century thinkers, or 'messianic vitalists'-Benjamin, Rosenzweig, Arendt, Derrida, and (deeply revised) Freud-the book attempts to demonstrate the possibility of such affirmation. Love becomes the new 'infinite-in-the-finite'; love in all its forms, from the original libidinal endowment of the human psyche to the last metamorphoses of agape, the Greco-Christian divine love."--Publisher's statement
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