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The sermon is essentially a performance and oscillates between orality and scripturality. The preaching of Geiler of Kaysersberg was a famous event at its time and the article asks, what is transmitted of it by the manuscripts and printed books. The writing does not try to reproduce the event, resp. the performance, but represents different reflections of it, adapted to the intended usage of the manuscript or printed book. The article demonstrates this on several examples from the work of Geiler and pleads for a diplomatic rendering of the manuscripts with a commentary and a facsimile edition of the printed books respectively. The results could refer to other texts between orality and scripturality, too.
The relevance of the work and the influence of Franz Rosenzweig, a German Jewish philosopher of the beginning of the last century; are still to get the appreciation they deserve. Rosenzweig was the author of one of the greatest – and less read – books of the 20th century, "The Star of Redemption", where he develops his philosophical system mainly on basis of theological categories. To the "monologue of the I" of mainstream philosophy, Rosenzweig opposes a "new thinking", of existential character, which values orality and the "other", and where language substitutes reason as a tool for thought. In it one can find some correspondences with the thought of Walter Benjamin. This "new thinking", also, strongly influenced Emmanuel Levinas and nowadays bears its fruits within "linguistic turn" philosophy and theology, and post-modern Jewish thought. This philosophy found in Rosenzweig's work in translation one of its main practical applications. To translate was for Rosenzweig a necessity, emanating from an ethics constituted as "first philosophy". This article examines some aspects of Rosenzweig's writings from where his "philosophy of translation" is made explicit.