Rosenzweig grounded both war and neighbor-love on the self-other distinction

Evidence

Clearly, the question of war touches on key moments of Rosenzweig’s thought, as well as on crucial distinctions that are made and unmade throughout The Star of Redemption. To put it briefly for now, warthat is to say, history-and the love of neighbor are predicated on the same condition of possibility, the necessary distinction between self and other. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 456

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• History and love of neighbor both require a self-other distinction (similarity 0.96)
• Rosenzweig’s war theory is bound up with the love of enemy (similarity 0.91)
• Rosenzweig held that loving one’s neighbor collapses religion-politics boundaries (similarity 0.88)
• Christian universal neighbor-love abolishes the geographic distinctions that once separated holy from political war. (similarity 0.83)
• Rosenzweig framed his philosophy as a declaration of war against German idealism (similarity 0.80)
• Rosenzweig denied Islam’s capacity for love and neighborly relation (similarity 0.79)
• Rosenzweig defines Islam as holy war rather than neighborly love (similarity 0.79)
• Love of neighbor detaches single individuals from the world’s cohesive structure (similarity 0.79)
• War and its enemy concept structure Rosenzweig’s entire theory of knowledge (similarity 0.79)
• Rosenzweig constructed a political theology dividing Judaism, Islam, and Christianity by war and love. (similarity 0.79)
• Rosenzweig casts Islam as pure political war opposed to Judaism (similarity 0.78)
• Rosenzweig’s political theology recasts Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as war-related figures (similarity 0.78)
• the love-thy-neighbor ideal is the disturbing source of civilizational discord (similarity 0.78)