“Ich Habe Nicht Geantwortet”
- The exchange between Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig on the status of halakha is a well known, but also frustrating fixture in scholarship. For rather than responding to Rosenzweig’s critique, Buber seems to retreat in silence, claiming to be “unable to speak” about his position on Jewish Law. Scholars have generally tried to explain Buber’s failure to respond on philosophical and biographical grounds. What I propose, by contrast, is to revisit the question of Buber’s silence and secrecy from a hermeneutical standpoint, arguing that Buber engaged in a deliberate strategy of concealment that constituted its own form of response. The hermeneutics of silence discloses a call for religious renewal that follows a state of Dialogvergessenheit, but which cannot be made audible. Neither dialogue nor its remembrance can be commanded. While Buber struggles with his Nichtredenkönnen, he also stands in a tradition of secretive hermeneutics – the Jewish hermeneutics of sod.
MetadatenAuthor details: | Yemima HadadORCiD |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/naha-2019-0015 |
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ISSN: | 1862-9156 |
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ISSN: | 1862-9148 |
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Title of parent work (English): | Naharaim : Zeitschrift für deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte (Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History) |
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Subtitle (English): | Hermeneutics of secrecy, religious silence, and Dialogvergessenheit in Martin Buber’s exchange with Franz Rosenzweig about Halakhah |
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Publisher: | de Gruyter |
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Place of publishing: | Berlin |
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Publication type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
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Date of first publication: | 2020/06/05 |
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Publication year: | 2020 |
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Release date: | 2021/02/17 |
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Volume: | 14 |
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Issue: | 1 |
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First page: | 103 |
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Last Page: | 132 |
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Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Jüdische Theologie |
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DDC classification: | 2 Religion / 20 Religion / 200 Religion |
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