Abstract
Sister Death, Cousin Grief: Modes of Presence Before Life and Death.
Highlights
Like all humans in times of plague or catastrophe, contemporary humanity finds itself before a flood that overflows the dam, demanding answers happy modernity cannot give (Lossky, 1944; Barth, 1946; Glatzer, 1961; Ariès, 1977; Schuon, 2003; Ratzinger, 2020)
Reality shows that the pretension of expelling death from life is vain; worse, it is misleading
Unteroffizier Rosenzweig wrote it while serving the Austro-Hungarian Army on the Balkan Front in World War One
Summary
Like all humans in times of plague or catastrophe, contemporary humanity finds itself before a flood that overflows the dam, demanding answers happy modernity cannot give (Lossky, 1944; Barth, 1946; Glatzer, 1961; Ariès, 1977; Schuon, 2003; Ratzinger, 2020). More prominent if less pronounced, an illusion: that happy modernity’s prosperity and progress will lead to a humanized nature, to a world where medicalization would tame death and expel it from life, building an invincible dam against suffering. Der Stern is essentially his testimony and commitment to the great Jihad, the struggle against the annihilation of the person by philosophical systems that aim to dissolve individual existences.
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