Christian love becomes a wartime temporality in Rosenzweig’s thought

Evidence

Love makes everyone-everyone-into a brother, maintaining the “separating space” as it traverses it, affirming the differences as it abolishes their relevance. The Pauline echoes are unmistakable. “It is left for love only to traverse the separating space. And thus it traverses in its flight the hostility of nations as well as the cruelty of gender, the jealousy of class as well as the barrier of age. Thus it permits all the hostile, cruel, jealous, limited ones to catch sight of each other as brothers in one and the same central moment of time” (346/G384). This time, it is now clear, is wartime. Here, the temporality of Christian love becomes wartime. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 481

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains Rosenzweig’s concept of love traversing the separating space while affirming difference.