Abstract
The common distinction in modern philosophy between approaches that are anchored in mundane reality and those that are addressed to the transcendent one is put to a radical test in Baruch Kurzweil's Hermeneutics, at the center of which the Hebrew author and poet represent the alternative to the traditional Jewish scholar. This article unveils the accordance between Kurzweil's understanding of the mundane and transcendent realities that find their expression in modern Hebrew literature and his interpretation of the ways in which the creating subject responds to them. Relying on the affinities between Kurzweil's Hermeneutics and Martin Heidegger's idea of man (Dasein) and art, the central argument in the article is that the dominance of the artist in regard to his work of art does not diminish his metaphysical vocation as "the poet of reality". Quite the opposite, the modern author and poet in Kurzweil's thinking transpires as having a special accessibility to mundane and transcendent realities that enable him to dub them, also in works of art that declare their unreserved secularity.
Translated title of the contribution | The Poet of Reality A Critical Commentary on Baruch Kurzweil Hermeneutics vis-à-vis Martin Heidegger's Idea of a Work of Art |
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Original language | Hebrew |
Pages (from-to) | 389-410 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | דעת: כתב עת לפילוסופיה יהודית וקבלה |
Volume | 81 |
State | Published - 2016 |
IHP Publications
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- קורצויל, ברוך -- 1907-1972
- Kurzweil, Baruch
- טרנסצנדנטיות (פילוסופיה)
- Transcendence (Philosophy)
- ספרות עברית מודרנית
- Hebrew literature, Modern
- הידגר, מרטין -- 1889-1976
- Heidegger, Martin -- 1889-1976
- סופרים יהודים
- Jewish authors
- פילוסופיה יהודית מודרנית
- Jewish philosophy, Modern