Tag Archives: Buber and Rosenzweig

My Banal Yom Kippur (100 Years After Franz Rosenzweig)

Posted on September 16, 2013 by zjb

Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky at Ansche Chesed reminded all of us in the kahal yesterday that this Yom Kippur, 2013, was the 100th year anniversary of the legendary visit of Franz Rosenzweig to a synagogue in Berlin. It was from there … Continue reading →

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Machine Human Velocities (New York State Fair, 2013)

Posted on August 29, 2013 by zjb

The Midway at the New York State Fair is an endlessly fascinating spectacle. Machine driven human brains and bodies ensconsed in steel hurtling in fast, noisy circles through a space of bright flashing color lights framed by the sky. Only … Continue reading →

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The Star of Redemption (New York State Fair) (Ferris Wheel)

Posted on August 28, 2013 by zjb

Franz Rosenzweig thought that “the star of redemption” looks like a human face. But I think it looks like a ferris wheel: a pod for human habitation spinning in circles around in the dark, powered by the artificially constructed and … Continue reading →

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Martin Buber Zionist Sugar

Posted on August 5, 2013 by zjb

My dear friend and nemesis GK wonders about Martin Buber’s place here in Israel. But Buber keeps popping up. At my cousin’s apartment, Buber’s own home in Talbiyah, in relation to Deleuze, on the sugar packets at the coffee station … Continue reading →

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(Human) Fast Slow Deleuze Buber

Posted on July 31, 2013 by zjb

I’ve been trying to sort through what I take to be differences between Buber and Deleuze. In the end, the significant ones don’t have anything to do with God and atheism, and nothing with ethics. It is world-view and tempo … Continue reading →

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Martin Buber (Legacy) (Mossad Bialik 1963)

Posted on July 30, 2013 by zjb

Today at JPP-FB there were some sad comments about the bad state of things in Israel today and the sad legacy of Martin Buber here. As opposed to his legacy where? In China, Germany, and the United States? When we … Continue reading →

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Martin Buber Lived Here (Arab Houses) (Talbiya)

Posted on July 29, 2013 by zjb

Martin Buber lived here on Rechov Chovevi Tzion 3 in Talbiyah. One often thinks this not to be the case, but large parts or bits of Palestine are very modern, as modern as modern Israel. Green, swank, tiled, and with … Continue reading →

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Prayer = Occular Technology (Star of Redemption)

Posted on February 12, 2013 by zjb

Technology scrambles what we think we mean when we think about religion. No, prayer has nothing to do with time, sound, language, signification, semantic symbolization, or propositional content. Looked at this way, prayer has to do with the occular perception, … Continue reading →

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Melancholy & Redemption (in Benjamin and Rosenzweig)

Posted on February 7, 2013 by zjb

The Origin of German Tragic Drama (1916, 1925) by Walter Benjamin and The Star of Redemption (1921) by Franz Rosenzweig are kissing cousins. The contents are isomorphic: Melancholy and the problem of history and tragic subjectivity fall all under the lights of … Continue reading →

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A Note on Idolatry & Anthropomorphism (Super-Organic Phallocentric)

Posted on January 9, 2013 by zjb

I’m reading Lewis Mumford’s Technics & Civilization and he makes this claim  about the kinds of organic images and figures suppressed by Christianity, a suppression that will later make its mark in the technics of monastic discipline, which following Nietzsche … Continue reading →

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