God is the Reason: Hermann Cohen's Monotheism and the Liberal Theologico-Political Predicament

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• 作者：Paul E. Nahme
• 刊名：Modern Theology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：33
• 期：1
• 页码：116-139
• 全文大小：160K
• ISSN：1468-0025

文摘

This article presents Hermann Cohen's Ethical Monotheism as an epistemological rejoinder to the theologico-political predicament of liberalism in Wilhelmine Germany (1871-1918). Beginning with an intellectual historical portrait of liberal Protestantism as a diffuse cultural context rather than a defined ideology, the article then proceeds to explicate Cohen's “liberal” Jewish conception of an epistemological “God-idea” as a defense against the antisemitic and essentializing thought of Paul de Lagarde. The article then concludes by suggesting that Cohen's interpretation of the Noahide presents a Jewish minority account of “God” as a basis for “secular” public morality in a hyper-contested public sphere.