El fundamentalismo: La negación del próximo (desde la lectura de F. Rosenzweig)

Authors

  • Olga Belmonte García

Keywords:

Love, reighbour (neighbouring), religion, «-ism» (fundamental-ism).

Abstract

The following essay analyzes the origin and consequences of fundamentalism, starting from the reading of Franz Rosenzweig’s works and letters. Even though the term «fundamentalism» is not used in these writings, through their study we can approach to the analysis of this phenomenon. Rosenzweig analyzes the love relationship (between men and between man and God); he also pays special attention to the concrete man, to the individual: to the acknowledgement of the other people. The lack of love and the refusal of the other people (their reduction) can be understood as the origin of fundamentalism. Franz Rosenzweig’s philosophy proposes a new way of conceiving the relationship (between men, between the man and the world and between the man and God), whose main aspects are dialogue, the respect of the difference and the love to the other people.