Judaism and Modernity Quotes

“It would be the eternal return – the renunciation of ressentiment against time. ‘Reverence for oneself; love for oneself; unconditioned freedom with respect for oneself. This revaluation would surely involve ‘the invention of an even more abstract form of existence … than one conditioned by an organized Church. For how can the eternal return be distinguished from justification by faith alone? Unless such love appears in the world, with reverence for the boundaries between man and man, it would be indistinguishable from hate.”
― Gillian Rose, Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays

“To shoot from a pistol — This is Hegel’s phrase – it refers to an abstract summary of a philosophical position in place of its exposition.
The inarticulate trees defy taxonomy; instead, in terror of contamination, they are set out as a haphazard list, as thematics, thereby skirting the issue of any tertium quid, which might introduce some logic, some order, some comprehension. With evasive haste, this untheorized and casual list of institutions of the middle (religions, philosophies, political regimes, economic structures, religious or academic institutions (Derrida’s poiesis)”
― Gillian Rose, Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays