Mending a Frail Humankind: Remedial Hermeneutics and Messianic Anthropology in Joseph Soloveitchik

• Authors: Chiara Carmen Scordari

Title variants

PL

Naprawa kruchej ludzkości: hermeneutyka naprawcza i antropologia mesjańska u Josepha Soloveitchika

Abstracts

PL

U Josepha Soloveitchika doświadczanie człowieczeństwa po Shoah, negatywne i ułomne, wzbudza antyobraz przyszłej ludzkości, którą należy naprawić i zaprowadzić wśród niej zgodę. Łącząc naturalistyczno-restauracyjny mesjanizm Majmonidesa z kohenowską ideą idealnej przyszłości, Soloveitchik przekształca oczekiwanie na osobowego Mesjasza w projekt antropologiczny, rozwijając ideę wewnątrzświatowego zbawienia, immanentnego zarówno dla człowieka, jak i historii. W tym ujęciu biblijne postacie Abrahama, Estery, Mordechaja, Tamar i Rut są ponownie przywoływane i doświadczane jako eschatologiczne oraz metahistoryczne modele ludzkiego oporu i twórczości – etapy w procesie ciągłego poznania i aktualizacji własnego ja, które zachodzą w różnych czasach i momentach historii tak indywidualnej, jak i narodowej. Stąd idea hermeneutyki, która staje się modalnością historycznego i egzystencjalnego objawienia i samorozumienia, ale także instrumentem odkupienia i planowania przyszłej ludzkości.

EN

This essay focuses on Joseph Soloveitchik’s re-semantization and renewal of the Jewish concept of messianism. In his view, the idea of Messiah is personified and, at the same time, deferred, as an allegory for ceaseless and ever-changing transformations, both individual and communitarian. Biblical personae endowed with a messianic impulse, such as Abraham, Esther, Mordecai, Tamar, and Ruth, are seen by Soloveitchik as eschatological and metahistorical figures, co-redeemers and co-creators with God, and models with whom human beings may identify. In this framework, particular attention will be paid to Soloveitchik’s conception of midrashic hermeneutics, as an always open process of individual and collective self-knowledge and self-redemption; and to the dialectical opposition between “revealed world” and “hidden world” as the constitutive element of Soloveitchik’s vision of the humanity-to-come.

Keywords

PL

filozofia żydowska; Joseph Soloveitchik; antropologia filozoficzna; opór i odporność kulturowa

EN

Jewish philosophy; Joseph Soloveitchik; philosophical anthropology; cultural resistance and resilience

• Publisher: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Colloquia Humanistica
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 1-15

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Chiara Carmen Scordari

• Università di Pisa [University of Pisa], Pisa

• https://orcid.org/0000000220350521

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Identifiers

DOI

10.11649/ch.2757

Biblioteka Nauki

31339680