Dubow, J. (2016) Judaism's Other Geographies: Franz Rosenzweig and the State of Exile. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34 (3). pp. 528-544. ISSN 0263-7758
Abstract
Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929), the German-Jewish theologian and philosopher, presents us with what can be called a ‘politics of Judaic theology’. Focussing on the particularities of Judaic time and space in his major work, The Star of Redemption (1921), this article argues for the importance of revisiting Rosenzweig to recuperate a history of thought opposed to the entailments of secular time with sovereign territory. Essaying between Rosenzweig’s early 20th-century theology and the political present, I then bring him into dialogue with the voices of Judith Butler and Jaqueline Rose who, from the varying perspectives of ethics and psychoanalysis, insist on an originary displacement at the heart of Jewish identity and, with this, the impossibility of any project of national affirmation. Indeed, when read together with contemporary challenges to political Zionism, I suggest that Rosenzweig’s theological understandings of space and time offer an alternative – and anterior – perspective from which to critique the ambitions of the Jewish nation-state.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 The Author(s), SAGE Publications (UK and US). This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Rosenzweig; Judaic theology; political Zionism; exile; remnant; dis-identification; temporality; nation-state |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 30 Nov 2016 11:35 |
Last Modified: | 03 Nov 2017 01:45 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775815623535 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications (UK and US) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0263775815623535 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:108611 |