FRANZ ROSENZWEIG: „THE NEW THINKING“

Abstract

According to his own understanding, in his work The Star of Redemption (1921)Franc Rosenzweig offered „the system of philosophy“ which tended to new thinking, i.e. to philosophyrenaissance by virtue of „theological notion of revelation“, but his critique of the „oldphilosophy“ was primarily focused on historical-relativistic cultural conscience, by which god,world and man – „the three last and first subjects of all philosophizing“ – are scattered away in a disarray of gods, worlds and men. Therefore it can be asked whether Rosenzweig’s critique ofthe three former ideas of reason (Kant) should be understood only as an existential rejection of„universality of thinking“ (Levinas) or as something more – as a demand that the logic of ideasand mediation of ideas be reconsidered again.