Totality and Community: Rosenzweig Versus Hegel

Abstract

In his masterpiece The Star of Redemption, Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) shows as the notion of totality is a constant and central reference in the history of philosophy from Ionia to Jena. This paper aims to explain a different meaning of the concept of totality, reconsidering some aspects of the question starting from the philosophical reflection of Franz Rosenzweig and his opposition to the Hegelian thought. In particular, according to Rosenzweig, the concept of totality is the essential background in which one could rethink the concept ofcommunity. For this reason, the second part of this paper is focused on the implications of a different concept of totality embodied by Judaism.

U svom remek-delu Zvijezda iskupljenja Franc Rozencvajg (1886-1929) pokazuje kako je pojam totaliteta stalna i središnja referenca u istoriji filozofije od Jonije do Jene. Ovaj rad ima za cilj da objasni drugačiji smisao pojma totaliteta, preispitujući neke aspekte pitanja pola-zeći od filozofskog promišljanja Franca Rozencvajga i njegovog protivljenja hegelovskoj misli. Konkretno, prema Rozencvajgu, pojam totaliteta je suštinska pozadina iz koje se može pre-ispitati pojam zajednice. Iz tog razloga, drugi deo ovog rada usredsređen je na implikacije drugačijeg pojma totaliteta utelovljenog judaizmom.