Tag Archives: Buber and Rosenzweig

Shadows & Silhouettes (Martin Buber)

Posted on April 17, 2014 by zjb

“They announced to me nothing other than their presence. And they did this with the precision of a shadow…Look at the ground, at the shadows of the trees as they stretch themselves over our path. Have you ever seen in the … Continue reading →

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Nietzsche & Rosenzweig (Birth of Tragedy & Chorus) (Modern Jewish Philosophy Ur-Text)

Posted on February 21, 2014 by zjb

Of course it can’t, but by way of an exercise, if it all could come back to one single text, then Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy is the ur-text of modern Jewish philosophy. About this I’ve already commented in a … Continue reading →

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Nietzsche & Buber (Birth of Tragedy Modern Jewish Philosophy Ur-Text)

Posted on February 20, 2014 by zjb

Re-reading Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy has convinced me that it should stand out as the ur-text of modern Jewish philosophy. The polarity between Appolinian form and Dionysian force will re-appear throughout Buber’s body of writing, the tension between form … Continue reading →

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Auto-Orientalism (Franz Rosenzweig & Dhafer Youssef)

Posted on December 10, 2013 by zjb

Preparing a conference paper on German Jewish auto-orientalism in the Star of Redemption, I’m listening to jazz oud played by Dhafer Youssef, a Tunisian artist who now lives in France. You can listen here at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Nhzf2DW98.  Youssef’s website is at http://www.dhaferyoussef.com/. My … Continue reading →

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German (Jewish) (Auto) Orientalism

Posted on November 26, 2013 by zjb

I raced through and like a lot German Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Religion, Race, and Scholarship by Suzanne Marchand. I did so while getting thoughts together about Franz Rosenzweig, in particular, and the history of German Jewish philosophical orientalism, more … Continue reading →

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Martin Buber (Haus) (Heppenheim)

Posted on November 16, 2013 by zjb

Martin Buber lived in this cute little house in Heppenheim, Germany. The neighborhood must have looked very different back then, in the 1920s. Maybe the house itself was more banged up, not maintained as well. But I like the spatial … Continue reading →

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Modernist Hasidim (Martin Buber & Leonard Baskin)

Posted on November 12, 2013 by zjb

  I love these black ink drawings by Leonard Baskin gracing the white or cream cover of the first paperback editions of Buber’s Tales of the Hasidim: Early Masters and Tales of the Hasidim: Later Masters. Perfectly handsome volumes, they tells us … Continue reading →

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China (Meta-Logical World) (Franz Rosenzweig)

Posted on November 6, 2013 by zjb

Driving home through Deleware Gap last week, I pulled over to take these pictures. For some reason, the photos that I shoot there always end up looking like a Chinese landscape. It’s probably the image of a craggy gorge standing … Continue reading →

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Dark Star (Another Star of Redemption Pictograph)

Posted on November 5, 2013 by zjb

Here’s another Star of Redemption pictograph. I started doing these years ago in order to give my students and myself a graphic orientation to the complex constitutional make-up of Rosenzweig’s multi-part system. This one must have been an early one, … Continue reading →

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Star of Redemption (Pictograph)

Posted on November 5, 2013 by zjb
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