: Matthew Ryan Robinson
: Redeeming Relationship, Relationships that Redeem Free Sociability and the Completion of Humanity in the Thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher
: Mohr Siebeck
: 9783161555886
: Religion in Philosophy and Theology
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A renewed focus on the role of interpersonal relationships in the cultivation of religious sensibilities is emerging in the study of religion. Matthew Ryan Robinson addresses this question in his study of Friedrich Schleiermacher's notion of 'free sociability'. In Schleiermacher's ethics, the human person is formed in and consists of intimate, tightly interconnecting relationships with others. Schleiermacher describes this sociability as a natural tendency prompted by experiences of physical and existential limitation that lead one to look to others to complete one's experience. But this experience of incompleteness and orientation to 'the completion of humanity' also constitute the fundamental structure of religion in Schleiermacher's theory of religion as orientation to 'the universe and the relationship of humanity to it.' Thus, Schleiermacher not only presents sociability as basic to human nature, but also as inherently religious - and, potentially, redemptive. What making such a claim means and the implications it raises are central considerations of this study of Schleiermacher's ethics, theory of religion and ecclesiology.

Born 1982; 2009 MDiv from the University of Chicago Divinity School; 2015 PhD from Northwestern University in Religious Studies; currently Research Assistant in Practical Theology in the Protestant Theological Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitä Bonn.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Religion, Relationships, and the Completion of Humanity??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????14
1.1 Religion, Sociability, and the Completion of Humanity????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????14
1.2 The Relational Religious Subject: The Completion of Humanity and the Contemporary Study of Religion????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????17
1.3 Religion’s “More” as a Space of Intersubjectivity????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????19
1.4 Schleiermacher on Religion: Human Sociability Aimed at Completion????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????21
1.5 Project Overview: Sociability in Schleiermacher, Sociability and Religious Formation, Sociability as Intentional Practice????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????23
Chapter 2: Sociability: A Historical Contextualization??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????26
2.1 Introduction??????????????????????????????????????????????26
2.2 Roots of Geselligkeit in the German Enlightenment, Pietism, and Popular Literature of the Eighteenth Century??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????26
2.3 Schiller’s Briefe on the “Perfect Reciprocity” (vollkommene Wechselwirkung) that “completes the idea of humanity” (den Begriff der Menschheit vollendet)??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????37
2.4 The Context of Geselligkeit in the Early Romantic Movement of 1790s Berlin??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????40
2.5 Conclusion??????????????????????????????????????????45
Chapter 3: Sociable Humanity: Origins and Aims of an Intersubjective Anthropology????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????48
3.1 Introduction??????????????????????????????????????????????48
3.2 The Sociable Life of Schleiermacher????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????48
3.3 Toward Free Sociability as an Anthropological Concept: Notes on Aristotle and “On the Highest Good”????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????54
3.4 Conclusion: Schleiermacher’s Sociable Anthropology??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????62
Chapter 4: Free Sociability: Representing Human Action Aimed at Completion??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????64
4.1 Introduction??????????????????????????????????????????????64
4.2 State of the Question: Research on Schleiermacher’s Theory of Free Sociability??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????65
4.3 Toward a Complete Vision of Humanity??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????71
4.4 Empirically and Speculatively “Natural”: Schleiermacher’s Critique of Adolph Freiherr Knigge??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????72
4.5 The Completion of Human Perfection as the telos of Free Sociability????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????75
4.6 The Derivation of the Principle of Reciprocity (Wechselwirkung) from the telos of Free Sociability??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????77
4.7 The Quantitative Law of Formal and Material Sociability????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????82
4.8 Conclusion: Is the Versuch a Fragment? The Integrity of the Quantitative Law as a Theory of Human Sociability in Outline??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????85
Chapter 5: The Sociable Society: The Completion of Humanity through Reciprocal Community with the Whole????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????88
5.1 Introduction??????????????????????????????????????????????88
5.2 Schleiermacher’s Versuch and Brouillon in Comparison: A Series of Interesting Parallels????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????92
5.3 The Completion of Humanity as Subject and Object of the Brouillon????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????98
5.4 Placing Free Sociability in Schleiermacher’s Ethics????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????106
5.5 Free Sociability in All Spheres of Life????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????111
5.6 Conclusion??????????????????????????????????????