Worldly Community and Community of Blood in The Star of Redemption: A Critical Approach From Helmuth Plessner’s Anthropology

Abstract

This work offers a critical approach to Franz Rosenzweig’s conception of community in The Star of Redemption based on Helmuth Plessner’s political anthropology. First, it presents Plessner’s critique of social radicalism and of the apoliticism of the German spirit, and its parallelism with the Jewish spirit. Second, it delves into the passage from Hegel und der Staat to The Star in a communitarian key. Third, it dwells on the difference between community of blood and community of faith in Rosenzweig, together with his theological-political translation into the distinction between the eternal people and the peoples of the world. Last, as a conclusion, it makes manifest the apoliticism of the Rosenzweigian proposal, and therefore, its incapacity to give an answer to the political problem in Weimar, of which its catastrophic consequences Rosenzweig did not know.

Ovaj rad nudi kritički pristup koncepciji zajednice Franca Rozencvajga u Zvezdi iskupljenja na osnovu političke antropologije Helmuta Plesnera. Prvo, predstavlja Plesnerovu kritiku soci-jalnog radikalizma i apolitičnosti nemačkog duha i njihov paralelizam sa jevrejskim duhom. Drugo, upušta se u prelaz iz Hegel und der Staat do Zvezde u komunitarnom ključu. Treće, zadržava se na razlici između zajednice krvi i zajednice vere kod Rozencvajga, zajedno s nje-govim teološko-političkim prevođenjem u razliku između večnog naroda i naroda svijeta. Na kraju, kao zaključak pokazuje apolitičnost rozencvajgovskog predloga, a samim tim i njegovu nesposobnost da odgovori na politički problem u Vajmaru, o čijim katastrofičnim posledica-ma Rozencvajg nije znao.