Art and Responsibility - Simon, Jules

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Résumé :
Compares the philosophies of Rosenzweig and Heidegger to elucidate their diverging ethical paths and to indicate philosophical consequences.

Biographie:
Jules Simon is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Science, Technology, Ethics, and Policy at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA. He is the co-editor of The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust: Salvaging the Fragments (Palgrave MacMillan Press, 2009). Professor Simon is on the editorial board and works as book editor for the Rosenzweig Jahrbuch/Yearbook.

Sommaire:
Introduction 1. The Mask of Mephistopheles 2. Renewing Narrations or Chaos in Creation 3. Rosenzweig's Midrash as Philosophy of Language 4. The Messianic Aesthetic 5. Heidegger's Hammer: from the Workshop to the Work of Art 6. Turning through Phenomenology to Art and Ethos 7. Philosophy, Poetry, and the Absent God: Final Words Bibliography

Art and Responsibility is a sophisticated exploration of the ethical implications of the aesthetic and the aesthetic implications of the ethical. Simon explores this topic through a phenomenological investigation of the thought of Heidegger and Rosenzweig. Instead of producing an intellectual history of these thinkers, the author seeks to elicit the ethical repercussions of their philosophies of art through careful philological-textual analysis of their dense writings. The juxtaposition of these two seminal German thinkers has engendered a fascinating study that undoubtedly will provoke lively discussion and debate in the years to come. --Elliot R. Wolfson, Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, USA