Offenbarungsphilosophie und Geschichte

The study is dedicated to the secularizing effects of the modern concept of history and its influence on interpretations of Judaism. The author interprets Franz Rosenzweig's "The Star of Redemption" (1921), in which he denied human progress of any meaning and placed Judaism outside of world history, as a crisis writing. Based on his philosophy of revelation, Inka Sauter looks back to the long 19th century. Century and the writings of Hermann Cohen, who represented a philosophy of history of Judaism in the name of mankind with hardly comparable intensity.The break in the transition from Cohen to Rosenzweig contrasts it with the theology-based philosophy of history of Walter Benjamin from 1940. In the juxtaposition of the three Denker, the "historical world" takes shape.